when they're clearly not excited, verbal irony spices up literature, pop culture and beyond ... contradictions of human experience and art itself. For example, in Lord Byron's works, he often ...

The Penguin First Reviews: Colin Farrell’s Wild Performance Makes the Series a Must-Watch ...

“Mariamundi” is a vibey painting, and what it broadcasts is humor, satire, and irony ... for example). Longtime favorite Clay ...

There seems to be no hidden irony we are meant to parse ... It is difficult to understand or locate any witty commentary or hard-hitting satire. Failed comebacks are nothing new, especially as far as ...

For this unaccredited historian, the 1990s began on Aug. 8, 1989. That was my 30th birthday, and I didn’t have much going on aside from an advance screening of James Cameron’s “The Abyss ...

The novels of such canonical figures as Behn and Defoe, for example, passed themselves off as real documents ... component of the ironic sensibility of the great age of literary satire and of Swift's ...

Katy Perry is not having the best time right now. Recently, the 39-year-old US singer released the first single from her new ...

From low-budget splatter flicks to studio favorites, horror is a malleable genre capable of revealing the depths of human ...

The Sept. 13 Facebook post is an example of what could be called “stolen satire,” where stories written as satire and presented that way originally are captured and reposted in a way that ...