| Some of you may suppose that this is some kind of dimwitted Swiftian satire. |
| The American People is a sloppy, mean-spirited and heavy-handed effort, a confused hybrid of historical fiction, Swiftian satire, memoir and conspiracy theory. |
| Karlsson, and the nature of the seed LoveStar carries, his satire attains Swiftian proportions. |
| Coetzee provides the context for Lurie's sexual crime and punishment with a savage though amusing Swiftian satire on contemporary academic life. |
| Gary Shteyngart is a melancholy Russian, a wandering Jew, an unassimilated American, a Swiftian satirist and a Gogolian taleteller. |
| But he has written a measured and readable account, which is often even humorous in a Swiftian sort of way. |
