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...DIED. EPHRAIM KISHON, 80, Hungarian Holocaust survivor and satirist whose novels sold more than 43 million copies in 37 languages; in Switzerland. After surviving the Nazi death camps, Kishon fled to Israel, where he wrote news columns, novels, plays and films. Although he never found a wide audience in the English-speaking world, his works were widely read in Europe and Israel; his 1980 novel, Sefer Mishpahti, is the best-selling book in Hebrew after the Bible. Kishon appreciated the irony of his success in post-war Germany: "It is a great satisfaction for me to see the grandchildren...
MESS O'POTAMIA That's what Jon Stewart dubbed the Iraq war. Can TV's hottest satirist make...
Even at his sunniest peak, this dark satirist can’t resist undermining his own predictions. He may embrace the twists and turns of fashion, but at heart he thinks they’re meaningless...
...author says that one of his models for Transmission was the fiction of English satirist Evelyn Waugh. When he exposes the inner workings of a Korean online role-playing club, hilariously parodies a Bollywood plot or offers a careful study of how tomatoes are stacked in a California supermarket, Kunzru shows he can do everything a gifted satirist is meant to do. Except perhaps for the most important thing. Waugh's critiques of the modern world's shallowness are set off against a sense of a Christian past that has been lost, a past that can be regained...
...profane social satirist donned tinted goggles, several bejeweled chains, a bright-red beanie and a sweatsuit to match—with the dubious academic title “Professor of Erbology” emblazoned on its back—to turn up the heat on an already-sweltering crowd of graduating seniors and hundreds of friends and family in Tercentenary Theatre...