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Presidential Follies On Ice by Alex Charns

Deliberately excessive, occasionally rambling, and often sharply funny.  In this anarchic hockey fantasia, civil liberties attorney and longtime beer-league player Charns imagines a 3-on-3 showdown against Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Justice Samuel Alito that escalates into a broadside against…
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How Women’s Hockey Saved the World* (and defeated Donald Trump, but not necessarily in that order) by M. Alexander Charns

Poignant, philosophical, humorous, and wise… A part handbook on hockey and a part political satire, Charns’s latest book is both wholly hilarious and deeply reflecting. The narrative straightaway delves into prejudice based on gender, especially in the field of ice…
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Make Our Country YUUUGE Again: Laira Succupy Ganders’ Unbelievable Journey with Tunnald Drump by Web Augustine

A hard-hitting political satire… In a witty, compelling narrative, Augustine trails the life and actions of Drump from before his election to the peak of the 2020 pandemic, delivering an immersive look at how the utter incompetence of the Drump…