Cover Story: Peter de Sève’s “Rat Race”

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“I had an inordinate amount of pets growing up, from puppies to parrots, and I even worked in a pet shop as a teen-ager,” Peter de Sève said, when we asked him about the mouse on this week’s cover, his fortieth for the magazine.

Here is a slide show of all the ways de Sève has depicted animals on New Yorker covers over the years:

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