This week’s issue of The New Yorker features a special four-part cover titled “Evolution” and illustrated by Chris Ware, Adrian Tomine, Dan Clowes, and Ivan Brunetti. In this video, the four artists and Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker’s art editor, discuss the concept behind the covers. Ware also wrote about the challenge of drawing Rea Irvin, the magazine’s original art director.
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
Culture Desk
New York City Travel Posters Through the Decades
Images from a century past showcase colorful dreams of a magnetic metropolis.
By Nicholas D. Lowry
Fiction Podcast
Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “Safari,” which was published in a 2010 issue of The New Yorker.
Cover Story
Klaas Verplancke’s “On the Grid”
The artist blends the preferred pastimes and stylish attire of New York’s commuters.
By Françoise Mouly
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Judith Butler Can’t “Take Credit or Blame” for Gender Furor
The philosopher popularized new ideas about gender—and has been burned in effigy for it. They talk with David Remnick about “Who’s Afraid of Gender?” Plus, a little March Madness.