1 / 20
Photograph by Jonno Rattman, for The New Yorker
Reading Cyrillic, on Christopher Street Pier.
In this city, if you look closely, you can find New Yorkers with noses in books on every park bench, museum step, patch of grass, and subway car. To capture the city’s final bloom of estival reading, we recently asked Jonno Rattman, a contributing photographer to the magazine, to capture portraits of readers across the city. He travelled all over town, from Brighton Beach and Governors Island to Grand Central Station and Wall Street, occasionally finding bookworms in unexpected places. Here are some highlights.
