Writing captures the breadth of human emotion, so it’s curious that we don’t often find humor taking the center stage in our literary worlds. At Wednesday’s Stegner Fellow reading, two writers ...

If you've heard of a comedian, chances are he or she has published a book; the catalog of comic-penned tomes is a deep one of widely varying quality. Less vast is the selection of books about comedy ...

One of the easiest ways of convincing kids of the joy of reading is to read funny books. Funny books help instill a positive impression about books and reading, assist in diffusing the difficulties ...

Coronavirus spread is a piece of everyday devastating news to all of us. It makes us sad to all frontliners risking their lives while gets us mournful to all lives that ended due to the virus. However ...

Most kids love reading funny books. Add in the graphic novel format, and you get a winning combination of funny middle grade graphic novels for tweens. The funny graphic novel books listed here share ...

“Laughter is the best medicine.” Hardly a new phrase, but why is that? Studies by neuroscientists and psychologists have shown that laughter increases the release of endorphins, chemicals in the brain ...

A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. WALKER: I honestly stay as far away from the subject as I possibly can. I only read Winterson’s book because ...

In the early years of The New Yorker, humor of all shapes and sizes filled the magazine—sketches, parodies, satirical Comments and Fiction, and more. Harold Ross, the editor, had stated in the ...