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.
Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family’s...