Tag: illustrations
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Peak Season” | The New Yorker
A watermelon sampled in summertime is a watermelon at the height of its powers. Though our modern existence gives us access to most foods year-round, a fruit or vegetable tasted in its season—a peach, a tomato, an ear of corn—is a pleasure apart. In her new cover for the August 14, 2023, issue, the architect and artist Victoria Tentler-Krylov turns her attention to one of the urban spaces that most rewards us when we are citybound in August: the green
Edward Gorey’s Toys | The New Yorker
Killing children is generally frowned upon, but Edward Gorey did it all the time. He squashed them with trains, fed them to bears, poisoned them with lye, forced them to swallow tacks, watched them waste away, and burned them in fires; on his watch, they died of everything from fits to flying into bits. In perhaps the most popular of Gorey’s eight abecedarian books, “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” twenty-six children, beginning with Amy “who fell down the stairs” and ending with