How Humor Can Be an Effective Tool For Social Change

How Humor Can Be an Effective Tool For Social Change

Chris Duffy on Relieving the Horrors Through Laughter

By Chris Duffy | January 7, 2026

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | December 19, 2025

Two stories about three brothers you should check out this holiday season.

Two stories about three brothers you should check out this holiday season.

By James Folta | December 18, 2025

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | December 12, 2025

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | December 5, 2025

On this Krampus Night, revisit the scariest Christmas book of all.

On this Krampus Night, revisit the scariest Christmas book of all.

By James Folta | December 5, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • Homeschooled: A Memoir
  • The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB
  • Watching Over Her
  • American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | November 21, 2025

Rejected pitches for the live-action Eloise.

By Brittany Allen | November 19, 2025

What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?

By Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner | November 19, 2025

Did You Know Mapmakers Used to Make Up Fake Towns in Order to Catch Plagiarists?

Did You Know Mapmakers Used to Make Up Fake Towns in Order to Catch Plagiarists?

Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman Consider the Techniques Cartographers Use to Prevent Counterfeiting

By Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman | November 18, 2025

Helen Lederer on What It Takes to Be Funny

Helen Lederer on What It Takes to Be Funny

"Life is absurd. We are all small. We all want what we can’t get…and this is funny."

By Helen Lederer | November 14, 2025

Here’s what’s making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | November 7, 2025

Free IP! Ideal candidates for the next Richard Linklater biopic.

Free IP! Ideal candidates for the next Richard Linklater biopic.

The artist loving auteur should make a movie about these guys.

By Brittany Allen | November 4, 2025

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | October 31, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | October 31, 2025

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | October 24, 2025

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