Books are like balms — grabbing the right book at the right time can provide the perfect antidote for what you’re going through at that very moment. Whether you need a dose of hope, happiness, comfort ...

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 ...

What even is a “comedy book”? It’s not a distinction used on signs hanging over a shelf in many (if any) bookstores, and it’s not a term publishers, editors, or critics use. It’s kind of an umbrella ...

I am concerned about how my book club scheduled for next Thursday at the time of this writing is going to go. Given that I’ve been telling people what to read for better than a decade in these pages, ...

I recently received a plea from a reader asking me to recommend some “actually funny” books. The plea was rooted in a desire to escape the despair and uncertainty of the pandemic, combined with a ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. When we're in need of some laughs (and, I mean, who isn't these days?) we all love a good standup ...

Get ready to laugh, chortle, giggle, and chuckle with these best funny books to read aloud to your kids. These are the funniest, funny picture book favorites that my kids loved me to read to them and ...

Jason Travis Ott has built a social-media fanbase by catering to logophiles. “Grandiloquent Words” draws together some of his favorite examples of exotic names for mundane objects and phenomena, which ...

THE DO-GOODERS by Alfred Grossman. 229 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Nowhere is the literature of the put-on so prevalent as in the area of grey humor, the pale imitation of black humor. Kookiness serves ...

Author and sociologist Raúl Pérez attended a diverse university in California that promoted mutual respect among students, "yet after hours, in the dorms, I saw many boundaries tested with racial ...