Playing down her smarts (she’s written for Vogue, Vanity Fair and more), McKinney goes for an enthusiastic/empathetic tone ...

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From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled literature for hundreds of years, always making it more inclusive, socially challenging and downright amusing. Here is the ...

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The Russian dissident's posthumous memoir, "Patriot," is funny, tragic and somehow optimistic about the future of his beloved ...

We listed some funny questions to ask Alexa, whether you’re killing time or gearing up for a party trick. Alexa has a good sense of humor (compared to other voice assistants), and it can produce great ...

“a blackbird knaps/ the flint of my heart,/sparks fly” – Geraldine Mitchell opens Naming Love (Arlen House, €15) with a haiku – a succinct ... These restless grieving poems are haunted ...

The trouble with "Funny Girl" is almost everything except Barbra Streisand. She is magnificent. But the film itself is perhaps the ultimate example of the roadshow musical gone overboard. It is ...