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...
17 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...
132 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.
93 months ago

Swift believed that humans have an innate capacity for reason, which they fail to use. But did he take the human comedy too seriously?
96 months ago

A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the...
74 months ago

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

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

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

The creator of Gulliver would have had a field day with the era of alternative facts, because even his most outlandish stories were grounded...
93 months ago

The work is not merely a biography; it is also an account that details the turbulence of the times in which Jonathan Swift lived.
58 months ago