In Persuasion Nation

George Saunders is both a blackly hilarious satirist and our most compassionate writer, who takes as his subject the striving of ordinary (and sub-ordinary) people to be good, to live decently, to do no harm, frequently under extraordinary, near-futuristic circumstances. He’s known first as a short story writer, and his works often culminate in moments of […]

You’d think four seasons of Black Mirror would have taught us to cut screens out of our lives entirely. But even as episodes of that chilling anthology series have detailed the horrors our phones, tablets, and flatscreens have wrought upon the world, there have been zero episodes about the dangers of reading a book. So, […]

If you love to laugh then you’re in luck, because we’ve gathered 50 of the funniest books of all time on this can’t-miss list. From the dark and dry to the witty and wry, from the fictive to the factual, from travel logs to comedic blogs, this extensive collection of humor both classic and new […]