“I was operated on when I was five or six . . . I vividly remember the counting down from ten—I don’t think I made it much past eight,” Malika Favre says, about her inspiration for the cover of the Health, Medicine, and the Body issue. “I tried to capture that feeling of people watching you lose consciousness . . . Most people have experienced it, but it still remains mysterious.”
Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
Caption Contest Entries: Celebrity Edition
In this episode, Bob Mankoff and The New Yorker’s newly anointed associate cartoon editor, Colin Stokes, review celebrity submissions to the caption contest.
Cover Story
Peter de Sève’s “Downhill”
The artist depicts carving up the slopes, straight into spring.
By Françoise Mouly