Cover Story: J. J. Sempé’s “Under the Same Hat”

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“Sitting together for tea is what friends do,” Jean-Jacques Sempé says of this week’s “Under the Same Hat,” his hundred-and-ninth New Yorker cover. “Time spent with friends is one of the greatest pleasures of my life.”

Here are some of Sempé’s other summer images from across the decades: