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A Pakistani writer recalls how, as a child, her father and his bookshelf introduced her to political humor and foretold her choice of career. By Bina Shah Jon Meacham looks at three signature works ...

Monday marks the centenary of the birth of Art Buchwald, a famed humor columnist who died in 2007. He was the supreme political satirist of his age; admirers compared him to Will Rogers, even Mark ...

When I interviewed Art Buchwald for TIME last May, he was working on a book which he called The Man Who Wouldn’t Die. The longtime Washington columnist had been told that his days were numbered after ...

THIS EDITORIAL would have been better if Art Buchwald had written it: shorter sentences, sharper insights and definitely a better punch line. Mr. Buchwald, who died Wednesday at the age of 81, was a ...

I knew Art Buchwald just a little bit in recent years. Of course I thought I knew him from his columns. But when he told you about his early years, in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and later years ...