Category: Humor

A hilarious sendup of campus life

You’ve probably come across one of these if you read a lot of fiction. They’re epistolary novels. The ten-dollar word refers to the letters that tell the story. Scholars seem to believe that the first example of this now-obscure genre was Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister,...

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A comic novel about India today, and Big Science, too

A review of Serious Men, by Manu Joseph. @@@@@ (5 out of 5). In his debut novel, Indian magazine editor Manu Joseph takes on the caste system, Big Science, love, marriage, and sex, corruption in government, the news media, office politics, loyalty and betrayal, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and the fate of the Universe — yet it all hangs together somehow. This is Black Comedy, Indian-style.

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Groucho Marx solves two baffling murders

For most Americans who recognize the name, Groucho Marx was one of the three Marx Brothers who headlined a series of 1930s Hollywood comedies, most famously Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, and A Night at the Opera. Yet to me he was the hilarious host of the radio and, later, television...

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