Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) had the most coruscating mind and enigmatic character of any writer in English. Sturdily built, with bright blue eyes, bristling brows and double chin, he was an energetic ...

Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer behind "Gulliver's Travels," was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. Here is a look at his life. It just so happens that I live around 10 miles from a place called ...

True faith rejoices in knowing that the Life we celebrate at the stable in Bethlehem is the real answer to death. The message underlying The Loved One remains as fresh and lively now as it was ...

If Gulliver could travel through time, instead of sailing around the world, imagine how familiar the Yahoos of Washington would look to him now. What would he say about the roaring Lilliputians and ...

Happy 350th birthday, Jonathan Swift. Widely recognised as the leading satirist in the history of the English language, Swift found his way into the world 350 years ago on November 30, 1667.

Gulliver’s Travels is today probably the most widely read literary work of the eighteenth century. Usurping the prominence that Pilgrim’s Progress shared with Paradise Lost in the nineteenth century, ...

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel. By John Stubbs. W.W. Norton; 752 pages; $39.95. Viking; £25. “A TALE OF A TUB”, “Drapier’s Letters” and “A Modest Proposal”, which envisaged the Irish poor farming ...

Buried in President Trump’s failed effort to obtain a mistrial in E. Jean Carroll’s civil suit against him for libel and battery — which maintains that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room ...