Puns. The only legal form of torture. If you are a dad, a teacher, or a bleary-eyed English major running on no sleep and a lot of coffee, you can probably appreciate the artistry of a good pun.

Literary pun Halloween costumes. Because pun-based Halloween costumes weren't nerdy enough on their own. This is the point at which we, as a society, should maybe ask ourselves, ...

Book puns are goldmines, enriching every conversation with clever wordplay and humorous literary references. Whether inspired by libraries, titles, characters, or authors, these puns will keep you ...

Monday, November 18 at 5:15 PM CLAIRE SMALL 104. with Dr. Xiao Rao (University of California, Irvine) Dr. Rao’s talk explores the place of humor in Middle Period Chinese literary criticism, focusing ...

Puns have long been a part of country music songs ... Sophisticated people may make exceptions for the literary puns of Joyce or Nabokov or the urbane wordplay of '30s show tunes.

Maybe I'm simply getting older, or maybe I just never gave them enough of a chance because I was busy being cool and tough, but man am I turning into a sucker for "animals + internet.

Puns may seem a bit old hat, but, used well, they can be a moment of pure joy within a work of literature. And there are many examples of this throughout literary history - but how well do you ...

Monday, November 18 at 5:15 PM CLAIRE SMALL 104. with Dr. Xiao Rao (University of California, Irvine) Dr. Rao’s talk explores the place of humor in Middle Period Chinese literary criticism, focusing ...

The pun for Dr. Johnson was lack, weakness, and female: a lass and a lack. Yet expansiveness is at the heart of Smith’s work; her characters aspire to the generative power of the pun.

The only thing better than food puns, though, are literary puns, and a crack team of bloggers over at the Hairpin (web editor of Saveur included, so don't think this is a bunch of amateurs) ...

It took him 10 years of writing before he published his first book, but now it's impossible to wipe the smile off the novelist Jasper Fforde's face – even when he is told that his puns are ...