Science Jokes

Adapting what may be the most popular of graphic novels, by the edgy Hard Case Crime author, adding layers and exploring the nature of morality. Faced with overwhelming poverty and a pregnant wife, a tragic, struggling comedian is forced to turn to crime. In his first heist, he is immersed in...

Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking - as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being - and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience.

Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and across space without missing any must-see sights – or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you’re Lord of the shoestring-budget or Luxe Skywalker – Notes from Small Planets is your pastiche passport through...

Mads og Jakob er i sygehusets kælder. De har stjålet nøglerne til den blå dør. Bag døren ligger de døde. Mads og Jakob er nysgerrige. Men de glemmer, at døden ikke er en joke. Hvem ringer fra det ukendte nummer? Og hvor kommer den mærkelige slubren fra? Caroline Ørsum (f. 1985) er forfatter og underviser. Hun debuterede i 2009 med ungdomsromanen ‘Hovedet i skyerne’.