“It’s distressing contemplating another story like this,” Barry Blitt says about the appalling murders referenced on next week’s cover. “But not really surprising, I guess.” His cover, titled "Nine," will appear on the June 29, 2015, issue. For more on the Charleston massacre, read David Remnick, Jelani Cobb, and Amy Davidson.
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.
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Culture Desk
Cover Story: Peter Mendelsund’s “Injustice: Baltimore, 2015”
By Françoise Mouly and Mina Kaneko
Books
When Marilynne Robinson Reads Genesis
The novelist calls the Bible “a meditation on the problem of evil,” which must reconcile the darker sides of humanity with God’s goodness, and the original goodness of being.
By James Wood