Being something of a smart aleck, I've sometimes joked that while I may look white, actually I'm Irish. All eight of my great-grand parents...
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In what was something like my 160th piece for FPR (“Happy Birthday to Us, and Long May we Honor our Greatest Satirist”), penned to mark the...
15 months ago

The 24th Seoul Performing Arts Festival kicked off Thursday with Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theater's "Gulliverse," a play loosely inspired by...
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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.
91 months ago

â?oI have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a...
94 months ago

Leo Damrosch's biography of Jonathan Swift gives full rein to his many talents and contradictions.
130 months ago

Author of the famous "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift is remembered as one of Ireland's best writers and satirists.
22 months ago

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

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

Jonathan Swift, (born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin), Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English.
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