When legendary animator Chuck Jones decided to make a short film out of Rudyard Kipling’s story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” he was faced with a challenge: How could he imbue the cobra-killing ...

Watch an excerpt. “The Peacelike Mongoose” and other Thurber fables were protests against the insanity that passed for received wisdom during the Cold War. His cartoons were not about politics ...