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

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 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

Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer behind "Gulliver's Travels," was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. Here is a look at his life.
24 months ago

How fitting that the man often credited with saying “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its...
91 months ago