In a generally thin time for fiction one of the most refreshing recent developments has been a vigorous new growth of satiric talent. It comes from a promising, if often provoking new group of U.S.

LONDON – Mary Poppins supports the EU, but Basil Fawlty is backing Brexit. The practically perfect nanny and the bad-tempered hotelier may be fictional, but they have been dragged in to Britain's EU ...

In the 1940s, long before the unlovely abbreviations LOL and ROTFL became standard usage, the great film critic James Agee broke the four main kinds of laughter inspired by silent-film comedians into ...

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UNLIKE our railways, there are no separate compartments for women in literature. All writers are equal and must share the same carriage, though male passengers commuting on the Literary Express are ...

LONDON (AP) — Mary Poppins supports the EU, but Basil Fawlty is backing Brexit. The practically perfect nanny and the bad-tempered hotelier may be fictional, but they have been dragged in to Britain’s ...