Humour
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
Last laugh
Intellectual wits like P J O’Rourke are rare birds these days
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
Bring back bawdiness
Bawdy humour and the pantomime go together like sausages and mash, whatever you make of that banger
Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time?
Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?