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Critics panned Don’t Look Up as ‘shrill’, but it was superb – and caught outlandish reality

Chasing quality, not clicks

Can’t decide whether to worry about eroding democracy or mass shootings? Why not both?

The difficult and brilliant ‘Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth’ gives nothing away for free.

Obviously, there is a place for politics in comedy. But the comic rationale should not be compromised by single-minded nationalistic – or 'anti-nationalistic' – rhetoric.

On this day in 1667, Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. Swift made a successful career as a satirist, essayist, poet and clergyman. His most famous works include "Gulliver's Travels," "Drapier's Letters," "The Battle of the Books," and "A Modest Proposal," which satirical poked fun at the English approach to the Irish, claiming that

A new novel by celebrated Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka – Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth – is a major event. But some critics have complained that the book is too long and difficult.

The new novel by Nigerian icon Wole Soyinka is at once satire, political thriller and tragedy. It is the work of a great writer that marks the destruction of postcolonial reason.

A new novel by celebrated Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka – Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth – is a major event. But some

A new novel by celebrated Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka – Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth – is a major event. But some