Wilfrid Sheed’s novel ‘Office Politics’ depicts the comic dramas of life at a literary magazine with sincere and humane charm ...
The novels of such canonical figures as Behn and Defoe, for example, passed themselves off as real documents ... central component of the ironic sensibility of the great age of literary satire and of ...
Love her or loathe her, Ayn Rand is an undeniably influential figure. Her contemporary admirers range from celebrities – Brad ...
Exploring Dickens’s unparalleled portrayal of 19th-century London, his social critique in Oliver Twist and his enduring ...
As the presidency fuels both inspiration and outrage, American literature reflects the chaotic brilliance behind the highest ...
Tony Tulathimutte, a master comedian, has produced an audacious, original and highly disturbing book that steers directly ...
This fall brings new fiction from CanLit stalwarts and international heavy-hitters, along with plenty of fiction that ...
Monk has written it as a joke, a satire of black stereotypes, but the publishers mistake it for serious literature ... Another example is from an interview with Madeleine Thien, Booker-nominated ...