“I need the solitude to focus,” Frank Viva says of his *cover *{: .highlight}for this week’s issue, “Beneath the Waves.” “It’s summer, so I’m in our cabin on a tiny island northeast of Toronto. Last year I wrote the majority of my latest book, ‘Sea Change,’ there. We just installed a new swim dock—who knows what this summer will bring.”
Here are some previous New Yorker covers that celebrate summer getaways:
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“August 8, 1953,” by Edna Eicke.
