Friday, March 15, 2024

humor

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ARTS AND IDEAS

22 novels to catch your sense of humor

With a wide grin, a moving cartoon gazes at tiny books clutched in its hands and laughs against a yellow background.

Three of our critics compiled a list of the funniest novels since Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” (1961), which put forward a fresh, funny voice about something quite serious: war.

Here, you will not find books stuffed with jokes. The humor these authors embrace traverses the gamut, from sardonic to screwball, mordant to madcap, droll to deranged.





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