Former journalist and Emmy-winning TV writer Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut “American Fiction” is a social satire that wields a scalpel, not a cleaving broadsword, as it surgically slices through ...

A decade ago, Cord Jefferson was one of the most captivating writers at Gawker, the then-flourishing news and gossip blog. In 2014, during the early Black Lives Matter movement, he wrote an essay ...

For literary translators, nothing is more challenging and yet perhaps more inspiring than texts shaped by humor, as they require a double translation: a linguistic as well as a cultural one. Global ...

Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips our imagination on a daily—or even hourly—basis? Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with them ...

In a 1992 review of artist Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s first major retrospective exhibition, New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman acknowledged his struggles with understanding Motley’s approach ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Poking fun at everything from the president's almost 30-year rule to the capital's frenetic traffic, satirical books are filling more shelf space in Egypt's bookshops and reflecting ...

Contra Theodor Adorno, it is mercifully untrue that the writing of poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Nevertheless, modes of artistic expression do rise and fall as history shuffles from one corridor ...