Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alanis Morissette performs at The Omni Coliseum in Atlanta Georgia, September 14, 1996 Rick Diamond/Getty Images The prevailing ...

It's been a while since we've heard anything from Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition (ANSWER), but the group's long battle over the right to hang posters in the District of Columbia has led ...

Adapted from "Irony and Sarcasm" by Roger Kreuz (MIT Press, 2020). Reprinted with permission from MIT Press. In February 1996, Alanis Morissette released the fourth single from “Jagged Little Pill,” ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, a 21-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter named Alanis Morissette released an album called “Jagged Little Pill.” One song in particular from that best-selling album has provoked two ...

Well, isn’t this ironic? Just when we need an ironic sensibility to remain cleareyed in dangerous times, we’re told irony is obsolete. And this from some people who’ve made it their business to peddle ...

Irony is hard to define. Just ask award-winning singer/songwriter and ‘90s teen muse Alanis Morissette. In 1997, on her hugely successful “Jagged Little Pill” album, Morissette included the song ...