Humor can make difficult topics easier to talk about—but it can also reinforce the stigma it seems to challenge. Here’s what the research reveals about when humor helps or hurts.

The actors connected quickly as they prepared to make their Broadway debuts in a new revival of David Auburn’s Pulitzer- and ...

And there, predictably, in the bottom right corner of The New York Times Facebook post sharing it, the symbol of belligerent, ...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I should receive reparations for having to watch Blake Lively’s pathetic stab at a Boston accent in ...

Kevin Willard once again found himself at the center of the NCAA Tournament conversation Friday, and once again it had very little to do with the actual result. Kevin Willard once again found himself ...

The University Libraries and Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (KBAC) are excited to host a presentation and reading of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot with illustrations by David Small.

Ryan Craig’s play “The Holy Rosenbergs”, first staged in 2011, examines the response of a Jewish family in north London to the 2008/09 war in Gaza. Fifteen years on, said Sarah Hemming in the ...

For all of his intellectualism and potentially intimidating reputation as one of the most acclaimed writers of the late 20th century, Salman Rushdie's sentences are powered in part by "a comic ...

On March 6, 2026, Isaac Leon Brandon peacefully entered into eternal rest after a sudden downturn in health. The sixth of seven siblings born to Lonnie and Lillian Brandon, Leon, as he went by, grew ...

Judges praised Claire Lynch's book for its "wry humour" and "deft storytelling" Debut novelist Claire Lynch has won the gold prize at the Nero Book Awards for A Family Matter, which was inspired by ...

Robert Duvall passed away on February 15, 2026, leaving behind a legendary filmography that includes movies like "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now." That said, fans of his small-screen work will ...