I once quipped that ninety-five percent of New Yorker subscribers read the cartoons first and the other five percent lie. Look, as terrific as the magazine’s articles are, you skip some of them; what you don’t skip are the cartoons. I’m not knocking those award-winning articles—hey, I’ve read some of them myself—but I’ve never seen…
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