Jonathan Swift had “beat us all to the porch” long ago. Here I excerpt some passages from that essay, published in March of 2012, to direct attention back to...
18 months ago

In his new biography “Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel,” John Stubbs explores the complex life of the man who penned “Gulliver's Travels.
94 months ago

The Harvard professor Leo Damrosch's commanding new biography, “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World,” does ample justice to a figure for whom religion and...
133 months ago

Jonathan Swift wrote “Gulliver's Travels” and blistering satire on human nature. He's relevant again. We'll bring back Jonathan Swift.
129 months ago

Three hundred and forty seven years ago today, Jonathan Swift was born. A poet and cleric, Swift published many satirical works under various pseudonyms.
74 months ago

Gulliver's Travels author and satirist used baby talk for coded intimacy in journal of letters.
167 months ago

In its abridged form, Gulliver's Travels has become a children's classic. But in full, it is a misanthropic satire, scathing of politicians.
80 months ago

A new biography of the great ironist is convincing about his private life – was he sexually twisted? By John Mullan.
132 months ago

By Claude Rawson Jonathan Swift, whom T. S. Eliot called “colossal,” “the greatest writer of English prose, and the greatest man who has...
134 months ago

Jonathan Swift used to ridicule the idiotic “modern” idea of understanding writers through their biography. He thought it ridiculous to...
98 months ago