Articles tagged "satire"

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Only the Super Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader

by Rachel Balik

[1.Nov.09] :. Neither fiction nor fact, Nader's sprawling novel is another venue for the same political ideas we've heard, not an opportunity for creativity.

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I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

by Michael Buening

[23.Jul.09] :. By saying Not is not Sidney Poitier, the reader is tempted to compare him to Sidney Poitier just as the characters do, when the author is pointedly saying that we shouldn’t.

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More Than It Hurts You by Darin Strauss

by Chris Barsanti

[28.Jul.08] :. Strauss turns a sociological eye on his cast of characters and seems at times on the verge of creating a Bonfire of the Vanities for the new millennium.

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A Bucket of Chicken With a Side of Guilt

by Mike Schiller

[11.Apr.08] :. Google unwittingly sent me to PETA this week. I have to admit -- I was surprised at what I found...

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Mission Accomplished by Khalil Bendib

by Michael Antman

[31.Aug.07] :. Political cartooning in America is in terrible trouble.

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Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

by Jason B. Jones

[30.Apr.07] :. Against such a backdrop, it must be unfathomably difficult to develop ideas and plots that remain wholly satirical, rather than lapsing into mere realism.

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Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

by Michael Upchurch [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[4.Apr.07] :. Joshua Ferris's novel feels like a readymade classic of the Great American Office Novel genre.