Readers might dismiss the unbalanced Gulliver, but he is only saying what Swift’s uncompromising satire insists is the truth about humankind. In many ways Jonathan Swift is remote from us ...

"Gulliver’s Travels" is the most famous work of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and is a satire on both human nature and the "traveler’s tales" that were then in vogue. Born in Dublin on 30 ...

Three centuries ago, Jonathan Swift described the horrors ... But such juxtapositions are revealing. Swift's satire escapes many readers: What appears to be a misogynist view of women is really ...

wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own" - Jonathan Swift "Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize" - Tom Lehrer I ...

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own," said Jonathan Swift, the gifted 18th-century lasher of human hypocrisy. "Which is the chief ...

Initially more agreeable than expected, the Jack Black-starring update of the first quarter or so of Jonathan Swift's classic satire falls completely apart by the end. Review in a Hurry ...