These days, my favorite genre books are the ones that don’t fit neatly into any […]
The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
After 107 years, satires are hard to fully understand. A reader might be able to […]
The Mangle Street Murders, by M.R.C. Kasasian
One of the dangers of becoming an established genre is that it makes parody possible. […]
Day of the Oprichnik, by Vladimir Sorokin
No one has ever described Russia so well as Winston Churchill: “Russia is a riddle […]
Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley
When our culture and government and so much else is ripe for satire, why aren’t […]
Supreme Courtship, by Christopher Buckley
There’s a great quote in this book, just past the halfway point, that sums up […]
They Eat Puppies, Don’t They? By Christopher Buckley
If anything needs to have the mickey taken out of it, it’s America’s violent fear […]
Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
The thing—well, one of the things—about satire is that judging the book is more than […]
Deus ex Machina, by Andrew Foster Altshul
Andrew Foster Altshul’s Deus ex Machina is a hallucination of a novel that blends reality […]
Florence of Arabia, by Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley has some guts. Florence of Arabia seems tailor made to piss off all […]