Humor

“No One Makes ‘Yo Mama’ Jokes After the Funeral.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the Power of Unexpected Humor

On Breaking Down the Walls of Decorum

 
By Hanif Abdurraqib  June 13, 2024
Humor

The Worst Town Names in America—And Other Useless Maps

By HarperCollins   May 22, 2024
Humor

Calvin Trillin Issues Some Important Corrections to Recent News Stories

By Calvin Trillin  February 16, 2024
Humor

Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time

By Michael Wood  August 25, 2023
craft advice

Being Funny Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be a Serious Writer

By Gina Sorell  April 6, 2022
Humor

To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

By Tahmima Anam  July 13, 2021
Humor

Defenders of a George Eliot statue had no idea what they were doing and I’m here for it.

By Aaron Robertson  June 16, 2020
Humor

Gore Vidal mastered the art of the burn.

By Aaron Robertson  June 15, 2020
Humor

John Hodgman: The Time Everyone Said I Looked Like Hitler

By John Hodgman  October 28, 2019
Humor

Meme But Not Forgotten: RIP to the Glorious Animals of Our Digital Past

By Kind Studio   October 18, 2019
Feature

Elizabeth McCracken: Toward a Unified Theory of the Doughnut

By Elizabeth McCracken  February 5, 2019
Conversations

How the Writer Uses Humor: Aleksandar Hemon

By John Freeman  July 28, 2016

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