Without those incentives there would be less creative work for the rest of us to enjoy. And comedians would have less ...

Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between Republic and Empire and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's ...

There’s a unique pleasure in the political satire. Whether in film or on television, well-wrought satires ask the viewer to think critically about the nature of politics, how power works ...

Kate Winslet to Robert Downey Jr to Pedro Pascal, it is a star-studded list of shows that should not be missed ...

The glamour but also the nasty underbelly of Hollywood have always loomed large in the imagination. You’d think the great destabilization that’s hit the TV and film industry would have led to all ...

The only person who twigs that the General is, in fact, mad and that the Russians have done nothing at all, is Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, a hapless RAF officer on an exchange programme, played ...

UChicago course examines the transformation trope across literature and film—from repressed desire to outsider identities ...

Between 100 and 127 AD, he published five books containing 16 satiric poems. The Satires, as they became known, attacked cruelty, foolishness and the corruption of Roman society. The most famous ...

In their second episode, Colin and Clare look at the dense, digressive and often dangerous satires of John Donne and other poets of the 1590s. It’s likely that Donne was the first Elizabethan author ...

Gary could put it away. Sometimes there were drugs but mostly to enable him to keep drinking. And he was a terrible drunk. We ...

One of my favourite satires is the Screwtape Letters, an epistolary novel by Narnia scribe C.S. Lewis. It consists of ...