satire

Art Young’s Dante-Inspired Satire Replaced Demons with Exploitative Capitalists

Steven Heller on an Old Master of Political Cartoons

 
By Steven Heller  June 29, 2020
Satire

What I Learned From Pretending to Be a Pretentious Lit Bro for 5 Years

By Dana Schwartz  November 7, 2019
Stephen Crane

A Century Before Springsteen, Stephen Crane Chronicled Asbury Park

By Tobias Carroll  November 1, 2019
Literary History

The Writer You’ve Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

By Mark Haber  September 27, 2019
Tragicomedy

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

By Randy Boyagoda  July 9, 2019
Parenting

How to Raise a Strapping, Manly Little Boy (Victorian Edition)

By Therese Oneill  April 16, 2019
Anarchy and Art

The French Satirist Who Brought Anarchy Into Art

By Edward Gauvin  April 3, 2019
Essay

Michael Moorcock on H.G. Wells, Reluctant Prophet

By Michael Moorcock  March 5, 2019
Close Reading

What If Readers Are Learning the Wrong Lessons From My Writing?

By Nafissa Thompson-Spires  April 25, 2018
Excerpts

How I Became a Jane Austen Superfan

By Ted Scheinman  March 8, 2018
Criticism

Dystopia For Sale: How a Commercialized Genre Lost its Teeth

By Brady Gerber  February 8, 2018
Op-Ed

A Boeuf Bourguignon for the End of the World

By Patrick Nathan  December 11, 2017
Deep Dive

What Can Comedy News Shows Actually Accomplish?

By Dawn Herrera Helphand  September 20, 2017
Criticism

How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?

By Tobias Carroll  August 21, 2017
Politics

Is It Still Possible to Satirize America?

By Sean Gandert  July 28, 2017
Close Reading

Forrest Trump: On the Donald’s Many Cameos in American Literature

By Susan Rieger  June 20, 2017
Deep Dive

Sinclair Lewis, American Prophet

By J. M. Henderson  March 6, 2017
Politics

Donald Trump: All of the Worst Fictional Presidents Rolled into One

By Alan Glynn  January 20, 2017
Translation

The New Year’s Tree

By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 12, 2016
Feature

The Beginning or the End? Writers on the Age of Trump

By Literary Hub  November 7, 2016
Criticism

You’re Probably Misreading Robert Frost’s Most Famous Poem

By David Orr  August 18, 2016
Excerpts

Night of the Animals

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 21, 2016
Essay

Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

By Peter Constantine  May 9, 2016
Essay

The Fine Grim Line Between Love and Stalking

By Lisa Levy  February 17, 2016
Conversations

Surviving San Francisco: Race, Money, and the Neoliberal Tech-Bro

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus  February 9, 2016
Essay

Adam Gopnik On Charlie Hebdo

By Adam Gopnik  January 5, 2016
Page 2 of 3

We Need Your Help:

Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member

Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for your contribution, you'll get an ad-free site experience, editors' picks, and our Joan Didion tote bag. Most importantly, you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving.