Eric Idle has explained why he’s feuding with Monty Python co-star John Cleese. Over the past few years, Idle and Cleese have ...

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and ...

Are You more Team Python or Team Anaconda? Which of these two snakes is the most dangerous?

As we’ve previously mentioned, there’s currently a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to build a statue honoring late Monty ...

“It’s like a Monty Python foot comes down and squashes plucky British artists ... altarpieces and sculptures broken, ...

"Robin Williams taught me how to be nice to fans. I would just tell them to 'f*** off' and they would laugh and go away," the ...

What are first edition books? And how can you tell if a book is a first edition? We teamed up with our colleagues at the Macmillan Archives to help answer these questions. If you're a fan of ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

The man has written seventy-seven books, so some nod to brevity is required. Any published stories compiled within a larger collection will not be ranked singularly. That still leaves sixty-plus ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week include histories of corporate mismanagement and misbehavior in the 19th century (“Savings and ...