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Posts Tagged with ‘satire’

  • Kosher Porridge – review of Jonathan Stone’s Prison Minyan

    04 Oct 2022

    KOSHER PORRIDGE Otisville – a New York state prison for Jews with its own kosher cuisine! What a ridiculous idea.…

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  • Reading and writing satire: Mightier than the sword?

    24 Oct 2021

    READING AND WRITING SATIRE Satire is having a big moment. We have satirical novels winning the Mann Booker Prize, satirical…

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  • Read Catch-22 for free

    20 May 2021

    READ CATCH-22 FOR FREE We know that the Internet thrives on free information. As the saying goes, “Information wants to…

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  • Putting on the squeeze. Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen

    26 Feb 2021

    REVIEW: SQUEEZE ME BY CARL HIAASEN What’s a poor author to do? You write a comic novel that satirises the…

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  • Is the rise of the topical novel killing literature?

    11 Dec 2020

    THE RISE OF THE TOPICAL NOVEL In 2010, I took my then agent for a Chinese lunch. I pitched an…

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  • Everything is copy – review of Nora Ephron Collected

    15 May 2020

    NORA EPHRON COLLECTED I don’t know about you but I am a sucker for Nora Ephron’s screenplay for When Harry…

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  • Does satire work?

    06 Nov 2019

    DOES SATIRE WORK? I’m just finishing a book about satire. Satire is flourishing. We satirists like to think that we…

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  • Ukraine elected a comedian president – so what do politicians think of voters?

    24 Apr 2019

    Last Sunday, the voters of Ukraine elected a comedian president. Volodymyr Zelenskiy won the election despite having zero experience of…

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  • Who’s afraid of the Maybot? John Crace’s I, Maybot, reviewed for the Library Corner

    09 Mar 2018

    Who’s afraid of the Maybot? Most of us remember our first encounter with a mechanical life-form. Depending on when we…

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  • Should we legalise drugs? The Library Corner review: High Society by Ben Elton

    16 Feb 2018

    Should we legalise drugs? Peter Paget MP thinks so. But he’s only a lowly backbencher in a government whose ministers…

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