“It’s probably a bit of a leap,” Barry Blitt says, about his cover of the May 22, 2017, issue. “James Comey is six feet eight—he probably would have been happy to give up his seat in a cramped cabin.”
Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
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The Political Scene
Can Joe Biden Fight from Behind in a Rematch Against Donald Trump?
As the general election is set to begin, there is a new protagonist in American politics: not the man seeking to take back the White House as retribution but its current, outwardly placid occupant.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Trump’s Authoritarian Pronouncements Recall a Dark History
Adam Gopnik considers how Hitler came to power, and what it tells us about the 2024 election. Plus, rewriting “Huckleberry Finn” from the point of view of Jim.