The authors of “Comedy Book” and “Outrageous” argue that culture-war worries about what’s a laughing matter have been overplayed. By Rich Juzwiak Rich Juzwiak has written about pop ...

Book News: Jacqueline Woodson Addresses Lemony Snicket's Watermelon Joke : The Two-Way "His historical context, unlike my own, came from a place of ignorance," writes the National Book Award ...

In her debut poetry collection, GREAT EXODUS, GREAT WALL, GREAT PARTY (American Poetry Review, 86 pp., paper, $15), Chessy Normile is often funny — “All the books on time / are pretty good ...