What You’ll Love about… Gulliver’s Travels Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan by Jonathan Swift

Gordon Browne, Illustration of Gulliver gazing on the flying island of Laputa, from Gulliver’s Travels. Public Domain via The British Library.

Part III of Gulliver’s Travels is the hardest part to love. It’s more scatological, more abstract, and more mean-spirited than the other parts. It’s also more fragmented, and its fragmentation suggests that is served as kind of a repository for the ideas that…