“I was stunned when I heard the news this morning,” Barry Blitt says, of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, the subject of his cover for the upcoming issue of The New Yorker. “And really upset,” Blitt adds. “I just sent money to my kid, who’s travelling over there—if I had just waited, I’d have saved a bundle now that the pound has collapsed.”
For more on Brexit, you can read Anthony Lane on the run-up, John Cassidy on what happens next, Amy Davidson on the implications for Trump, Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the consequences for liberalism, and Ed Caeser on the vote in the M.P. Jo Cox’s district. Or you can look at Kim Warp’s (http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/bonus-daily-cartoon-brexit).
