The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm delivers the perfect bathroom reading material. Not that you give a crap, as the author might say. James Napoli, who bills himself on the cover as executive vice ...

It’s funny how sarcasm is associated with humor. “To tear flesh like a dog,” is not a jolly image, but the word nonetheless derives from the Greek sarkazein, meaning just that. It evolved to mean “to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A father and daughter were deep in discussion over breakfast at a diner. “That’s not irony, that’s sarcasm,” the father ...