Topic: Irony

Rain on a wedding day

The irony of how we use the word "irony"

Roger Kreuz
Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson: "The patriarchy is gone"

Shira Tarlo
Donald Trump

The bitter irony of Donald Trump

Sophia A. McClennen
All-American Girl

GOP uses Cho sitcom photo

Rachel Leah
Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Jennifer Egan

David Foster Wallace's legacy

Lee Konstantinou
30 Rock

A guide to overcoming irony

Frankie Lyon
Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace

Foster Wallace vs. Franzen

Eric G. Wilson
David Letterman

Letterman's ironic legacy

Scott Timberg
Portlandia

We have irony all wrong

Steven Quartz, Anette Asp
Image for David Foster Wallace's importance of being earnest: Irony, Generation X and the sheer joy of language

David Foster Wallace's joy

Adam Kirsch
Image for Let's all be a lot less honest: Lena Dunham, naked selfies, and the irony of oversharing

Let's all be a lot less honest

R. Jay Magill Jr.
Image for Anal sex jokes got me through my dad's funeral

Anal sex jokes and Dad's death

Sarah Terez Rosenblum
Image for John Oliver is smarter than the State Department: Irony will not defeat ISIS

Put John Oliver in charge

Sophia A. McClennen
Image for Irony, sincerity, normcore: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, David Foster Wallace and the end of rebellion

Normcore is not a joke!

R. Jay Magill Jr.
Image for Are millennials too cool for sincerity? The truth about our love affair with irony

Gen Y: Too cool for sincerity

Philip Burnett
Image for What Hannah Arendt understood about irony that David Foster Wallace didn't

In defense of irony

Laura Miller
Image for What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn't have nearly enough of it

DFW was wrong about irony!

Peter Finocchiaro
Image for David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture

Irony is ruining our culture

Matt Ashby, Brendan Carroll
SAUNDERS George

George Saunders, truth-teller

David Daley
Image for Ted Cruz's ironic birther predicament

Ted's ironic birther problems

Steven Lubet
Image for Alanis Morissette's song is finally ironic

Finally ironic

Prachi Gupta
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"The Hobbit" is not a hipster!

Robert Rodi
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