this timely book—whose author was born November 30, 1667—is a subtle, richly diversified, ostensibly comic study of human depravity and its various alternatives...
3 months ago

The writing was classic Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal.” Imagine anyone opposed to funding a voluntary fire company who risk their lives to save lives and...
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This article talks about unusual laws in an empire where informers of false accusations are put to death if the accused are proven innocent.
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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?
97 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

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

The work is not merely a biography; it is also an account that details the turbulence of the times in which Jonathan Swift lived.
59 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

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