Representing more than seventy-five years worth of outstanding humor writing from The New Yorker, this entertaining anthology features hilarious spoofs, parodies, short fiction, reviews, and reporting by James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Woody Allen, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, Roz Chast, Vladimir Nabokov, and other notable authors.
Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment against him, hunting for him as they did for no other. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured...