Readers Who Lie . . .

. . . and the editors who enable them. 

 

“100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first — and the other 2% are lying.”

—David Remnick, editor, The New Yorker.

  

• Editorial Comment: The NYer has cartoons?

  

 

 

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Social Isolation Ain’t All Bad

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