And comedians would have less material to draw on for their parodies and satires. This is why overseas courts keep a tight ...

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 ...

The glamor 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 kinds ...

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

There is nothing new about artists engaging in the politics of their communities. The plays of Aristophanes savaged the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mid-November is more than just the half-way point between Halloween and Thanksgiving. It is also the height of fall play season at our area schools for our local young thespians. It is also way ...

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

You’d think the great destabilization that’s hit the TV and film industry would have led to all kinds of showbiz satires excavating the anxieties and disruptions brought on by streaming and, more ...

"The Diplomat" returns with an excellent Season 2, as last year's cliffhanger raises the stakes and Keri Russell keeps getting better ...