Book review: Who doesn’t like jokes about ISIS brides and dysfunctional UN workers?

Onto another of the shortlisted novels for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. This time, a debut from academic and peace-building practitioner (that’s what her bio says) Noussaibah Younis. And, following the befuddlement aroused by Rosanna Pike’s A Little Trickerie, it came as something of a relief that Fundamentally was both funny and intended to be so. I mean, who doesn’t like jokes about ISIS brides and dysfunctional UN workers? (Obviously, if the answer to that question is you...