Satire

From the sarcastic to the suggestive, here are quotation marks as we love them best, doing horrible damage to the English language. Who wouldn't have second...

Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris tim...

will Is Thirty-six And Doesn't Really Want Children. Why Does It Bother People That He Lives So Happily Alone In A Fashionable, Lego-free Flat, With Massiv...

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows abou...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publis...

the Town Psychiatrist Has Decided To Switch Everybody In Pine Cove, California, From Their Normal Antidepressants To Placebos, So Naturally—well, To Be Ac...

there Are Some Jokes That Can never Be Repeated In Front Of One’s Mother. That Doesn’t Mean The Jokes Aren’t Funny. Generally It Means They're Laugh-out -...

Evelyn Waugh.Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy Science FictionAlternate History

It's 1911 and the secluded southwestern Alabama town of Old Texas has been besieged by a scabrous and malevolent character called E. O. Smonk. Syphilitic, ...

The witty and utterly delightful new novel in the national bestselling 44 Scotland Street series. Featuring all the quirky characters we have come to know...

THE EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HORIZONTAL LIFE When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her ...

for The First Time Ever A Cancelled Show Has Been Resurrected On The Basis Of Its Cult Following In Syndication, On The Internet And On Dvd (over 2.2 Mill...

#1 New York Times Bestseller * The Compelling, Inspiring, And Comically Sublime Story Of One Man's Coming-of-age, Set During The Twilight Of Apartheid And T...

Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cult...

One of the truly great writers of the century reaches beyond the very top of his game in this uncannily timely knockout of a novel. In quality and compelli...

Seinfeld. For more than 33 million viewers, the Emmy Award-winning television show has become a Thursday night ritual. Even though the show has ended, J...

It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched color...

Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe ...

The exhilarating New York Times bestseller from the author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to Be Good. The New York Times - Chris Heath At its hear...

You Know Those Subtle Tricks Your Coworkers Are All Guilty Of? The Constant Nodding, Pretend Concentration, Useless Rhetorical Questions? These Tricks Make ...

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of t...

About the Author\Patrick Taylor, M.D., is the author of the Irish Country books, including An Irish Country Doctor, An Irish Country Village, An Irish Count...

find Out What’s So Funny When Nothing’s Funny sometimes Life Just Stinks—people Disappoint, Bad Things Happen, And Hardship Comes. laughing Matters Is A C...

Sy Levin, A High School Teacher Beset By Alcohol And Bad Decisions, Leaves New York For The Pacific Northwest To Start Over, Imagining That An Extraordinary...

Channel The Magical Guidance Of Unicorns And Discover Their Powers Of Positivity, Spiritual Healing, And General Awesomeness. This Handy, Pseudo-spiritual G...

Funny, fearless, and absolutely filthy—there are nearly 3,000 more uncensored, dirty, sick, and deeply politically incorrect jokes that cover every topic ...

A Brilliant Follow-up To The Stephen Leacock Award Winner 'the Best Laid Plans,' This Deeply Funny Satire Continues The Story Of Honest Angus Mclintock, An ...

2 March 1810 . . . Today, I Fell In Love. at The Age Of Ten, Miranda Cheever Showed No Signs Of Great Beauty. And Even At Ten, Miranda Learned To Accept ...

When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and myste...

From The Beloved And Wildly Popular Podcast Wtf With Marc Maron Comes A Book Of Intimate, Hilarious, And Life Changing Conversations With Some Of The Funnie...

Nick Twisp started out an honor student and ended up a fugitive. Youth in Revolt is the three-volume journal of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious d...

For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few k...

Michael Moritz And Barrett Seaman. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [331]-332.Categories: Literature & Fiction Humor & SatireSatire

This is a highly illustrated and full-color collection of the greatest propaganda images ever. From Napoleonic war paintings via anti-Hitler posters to brut...

'The book everyone's talking about' The Times (Book of the Year) 'Titania McGrath is a genius' Spectator (Book of the Year) 'Beautiful classic satire' Rick...

“Elin Hilderbrand meets Edith Wharton in this delightfully juicy tale. I loved every minute.” —Meg Mitchell Moore, bestselling author of Vacationland\...

A PEOPLE BEST NEW BOOK • An outlandish comedy of morals and manners about a highborn British family of outrageous characters, by the acclaimed author of T...

This Never-before-translated Masterpiece--by A Heroic Best-selling Writer Who Saw His Life Crumble When He Wouldn't Join The Nazi Party--is Based On A True ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Kaling is] like Tina Fey’s cool little sister. Or perhaps . . . the next Nora Ephron.”—The New York TimesMindy Kali...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover how to embrace your best basic self in this laugh-out-loud funny guidebook from the breakout star ...

From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of Meddling Kids Comes A Brilliantly Subversive And Comic Thriller Celebrating Noir Detectives, Die Hard, Fast &a...

A collection of whimsical and biting cartoons that capture the absurdity and hilarity of the everyday offer a slightly jaundiced and sometimes all too real ...

"Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding...

La novela más comprometida de Rodrigo Rey Rosa: un poderoso thriller que es a la vez un retrato implacable de la corrupción y los entresijos del poder e...

Toddler A**holery Is A Normal Part Of Human Development—not Unlike Puberty, Except This Stage Involves Throwing Food On The Floor And Taking Swings At Peo...

Decades ahead of the amusing but distorting buffoonery of Blackadder Goes Forth, this complete edition of the Wipers Times, the famed trench newspaper of th...

Science Fiction Icon Connie Willis Brilliantly Mixes A Speculative Plot, The Wit Of Nora Ephron, And The Comedic Flair Of P.g. Wodehouse In Crosstalk--a Gen...

Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from h...