For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Humour

Christopher Hart

Joyful Logorrhoea

King of the City

By Michael Moorcock

January 1997 Issue

Lisa Jardine

Not For This Princess

Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

By Howard Jacobson

April 1997 Issue

Wallace Arnold

Thin Ice

The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage

By Kingsley Amis

October 1983 Issue

Susan Marling

Make Lunch Not War

The Limits of Sex

By Celia Haddon

December 1992 Issue

Victoria Mather

Why I Hate the Country

December 1979 Issue

Philip Thody

Wodehouse and the Critics

P. G. Wodehouse, An Illustrated Biography

By Joseph Connolly

February 2016 Issue

Dominic Green

Eye for a Joke

Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence

By Lee Siegel

January 1984 Issue

Stephen Pickles

Interval Talk

November 1984 Issue

Richard Curtis

Two Great Books

Anna Karenin

By Leo Tolstoy

Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book

By Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, Lise Mayer

July 1985 Issue

Richard Curtis

Sweet FA

August 2003 Issue

David Profumo

From Pinocchio to ‘Pataphysics

The Encyclopaedia of Stupidity

By Matthijs van Boxsel, Arnold and Erica Pomerans (trans.)

August 2003 Issue

Alan Rafferty

Weird Science

A Short History Of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

October 2008 Issue

David Profumo

Lost in Translation

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

By Jim Holt

December 2007 Issue

Michael Barber

Comic Cuts

Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1950s Comic

By Daniel Tatarsky (ed)

The Complete Peanuts: Volume 1 1950–52, Volume 2 1953–54

By Charles M Schulz

November 2013 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Fooling with Feinstein

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

By Ruth R Wisse