“What’s broken in this country won’t be fixed by pictures,” the artist and designer Peter Mendelsund says about next week’s cover. “Still, making an image feels galvanizing—a way to fight idleness. Making pictures is my natural, and perhaps only, true manner of expression. It’s a small thing, really, making a picture.”
Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
Mina Kaneko is a former member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff.
Goings On
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Profiles
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions
Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists.
By Ian Parker