Books are influential. They have the power to make you cry, dream, escape reality and catapult you on new adventures. Books also have the magical ability to bring on smiles and laughs when they’re ...

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, ...

Picking the funniest book you've ever read is just about as difficult as it gets for a reader. But that's exactly what we made PW staff members do, and the results are as varied as can be. Help us add ...

Author Gloria Squitiro chatted about her humor fiction book “C’mon Funk Move Your Ass: How a Demure Little Wife Made Her Husband a Big City Mayor.” Author Gloria Squitiro chatted about her humor book ...

“Did You Know I’m Italian?” is a transportive collection of travel essays by the actor Stanley Tucci. With mouthwatering descriptions of Italian cuisine, and also a pop-up guide on how to roll your ...

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 humorist is usually a passing fancy with the public. His brand of wit catches the popular eye, holds it for a space, then is forgotten, as a new humorist comes along with a new method of twisting ...

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 ...

DULUTH — Therapist Glenn Maloney recently published a book that explores using humor as an intervention in a clinical setting — an otherwise taboo concept in the mental health field. As a licensed ...