The hard question is how unsettling that should be. “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” Isn’t a Feel-Good New York Story Memorialized as the quintessential Brooklyn novel, it is really a book about ...

Emma Allen is The New Yorker’s cartoon editor and edits humor pieces for newyorker.com. Jeremy Nguyen has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 2017. “Drawing Life” is part of ...

Ian Crouch and Hannah Jocelyn contributed to this edition. Emma Allen is The New Yorker’s cartoon editor and edits humor pieces on newyorker.com. Liz Maynes-Aminzade is the puzzles-and-games ...