America's Most Critical Journal since 1999
The Satirist features original works of satire and parody, especially literary artifacts, as well as serious criticism and book reviews. The Satirist publishes satirical news as seen in The Onion, but these are just for topical amusement; they don’t ge... More »
“Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a... More »
About The Satirist Since 1999, millions of readers and web crawlers have read The Satirist “America’s Most Critical Journal”. The Satirist features original works of satire, parody, and “news”, fiction and poems, essays, as well... More »
satire irony sarcasm parody burlesque travesty An Example: Chuck and Di’s Wedding This article is an attempt to clarify “satire” and related words. It is understood that didactic attempts like these are themselves vulnerable to satirical skew... More »