Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Books are influential. They have the power to make you cry, dream, escape reality and catapult you on new adventures. Books also ...

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 ...

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, ...

Chris Duffy is a comedian, but he'd reached a point in his life where he'd nearly forgotten the joy of laughter. CHRIS DUFFY: I was teaching at a school, and I was dealing with a lot of really tough ...

“The Book of George” is a novel of many finely crafted, often funny moments that arrive episodically as the title character grows older. At first he’s a millennial kid, then a college guy as the Twin ...

At first blush Judd Apatow’s “Comedy Nerd” (Random House, 576 pages, $50) may seem like a hopeless vanity project, but this handsome, visceral memoir is satisfying on many levels. First and foremost, ...

Ali Solomon, a cartoonist and writer based in Queens, New York, brings everyday experiences to life through her single-panel comics. As a regular contributor to The New Yorker, her work often explores ...

Laugh your rear-end off. Laugh yourself silly, until you almost cried, it’s the best medicine. Had you rolling in the aisles, holding your sides coz they hurt. When something’s funny, you know it but ...

Jason Travis Ott has built a social-media fanbase by catering to logophiles. “Grandiloquent Words” draws together some of his favorite examples of exotic names for mundane objects and phenomena, which ...