“It’s an obsession,” Jean-Jacques Sempé says about the coverart he created for the new issue. “I would love to become a child on the beach once again. It may sound infantile, but that’s the feeling I long for: to be a child without care, taking in the immensity of the ocean and still feeling safe.”

This weeks The New Yorker

Art Editor Françoise Mouly
Editor: David Remnick

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