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The Story Behind The New Yorker’s 9/11 Cover

On September 11, 2001, Françoise Mouly, the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993, was walking to vote in the mayoral primaries with her husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, when a plane flew low overhead and struck the north tower, visible at the end of their street. They rushed to their daughter’s high school in the towers’ shadow, spending 90 harrowing minutes in the school before they located her. Stepping out, they watched the second tower disintegrate. Shortly thereafter, Mouly was told that The New Yorker needed a new cover for the issue they were assembling, but none of the propo

Meet the Artists Behind These Viral Fake A.I. Ads

The comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross have gone viral for putting up posters for fake tech products across the city. The campaign germinated about a year ago, when Alterman began noticing subway ads for A.I. companies that annoyed him with their promises to make existence easier, even frictionless. “It’s the same voice, which I’ve called slop voice,” he said. For the Talk of the Town, the reporter Bruce Handy visited a newsstand at West Fourth Street Station that the comedians took over with advertisements for nonexistent tech companies. “The ads conveyed just enough Silicon Valley messi