Quo Vadimus?—E.B. White—Harper ($2). Elwyn Brooks (“Andy”) White for eleven years wrote the oxymoronic introductory paragraphs to each New Yorker issue. The tone of these paragraphs, a kind of ...

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, ...

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 ...

Humorist Jerry Zezima will be speaking about his latest book “One for the Ageless: How to Stay Young and Immature Even If You're Really Old” at the Harry Bennet branch of the Ferguson Library in ...

Humorist Calvin Trillin once defined humor by saying it’s undefinable: “It’s what makes the lady in the second row laugh.” You can’t debate it, he said. You can’t tell her, “This joke worked yesterday ...

Scholastic research shows that humor in books is the top characteristic kids look for when making their reading selections. According to the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report, more than 50 ...

The look on the face of humorist David Sedaris is as serious as a tax return. "I don't have a clue," he is saying. "I genuinely do not have a clue." The subject at hand is the stupefying popularity of ...