Don't let the name fool you, sometimes grouchy can be funny. Novelists, poets, and writers of all ilk and ink from all over the New Orleans metro area recently gathered at Mac's on Boston Street in ...

The winner of the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor Award will be announced May 7 at a fundraising celebration.

The stories and writers of a region can work to define that region. The honest and perceptive eye of an observant writer will expose those on the outside to an unknown world, and after the reader ...

Alfred University Professor of English Juliana Gray’s satirical piece “Escape Room Challenge: Your European Airbnb” was published recently in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a leading online literary ...

There is a feature that has often marked the dust jackets of V.S. Naipaul’s books. We are first given some perfunctory details about the writer’s birth in Trinidad, his education at University College ...

Much of the best literary humor, from the time of Shakespeare down to the New Yorker's Dorothy Parker, is based on word play or puns. Oscar Wilde called puns "the lowest form of humor," and then he ...

Humor in Native North American literature and culture: survey -- Reimagining nativeness through humor: concepts and terms -- Expressing humor in contemporary native writing: forms -- Humor at work in ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. For our session on Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, I was somehow possessed to supplement ...