Charles S. Felver: Robert Armin, Shakespeare's Fool

Ben Lewis: Hammer and Tickle

Steve Lipman: Laughter in Hell

David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt: Laughter After

Barry Sanders: Sudden Glory

Enid Welsford: The Fool

Sandra Billington: A Social History of the Fool

Peter L. Berger: A Rumor of Angels

Alfie Brown: Post-Comedy

Brian Eno and Bette Adriaanse: What Art Does

William Bronk: Selected Poems

Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr.: Inside Jokes

László Krasznahorkai: Spadework for a Palace

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail

Merrick Anderson: Just Prospering?

Eliot Weinberger: The Life of Tu Fu

Michael Nill: Morality and Self-Interest in Protagoras, Antiphon, and Democritus

Murray S. Davis: What's So Funny?

Maria Bamford: Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

Scott Weems: Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why

John Guillory: On Close Reading