Adrian Tomine's cover for The New Yorker examines "recognition"

Date
12 October 2015

The New Yorker has unveiled its new cover, illustrated by Adrian Tomine and looking at the idea of recognition. It shows a little girl pointing to stacks of books set out on the steps of a home in the city. “Where I live in Brooklyn, there’re always a lot of books being set out on the sidewalk, and there’re also a lot of authors walking around the neighbourhood,” Adrian Tomine says on the publication’s Cover Story feature.

“Lifelong New Yorkers may take for granted the sight of people setting stuff on their steps to give away, but I still notice it. I’ve had the experience of seeing stacks of New Yorkers with my cover out on the street, though I haven’t seen my books put out—but then, I also don’t have a giant photo of myself on the back cover.”

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