The New Yorker Magazine February 21 1994 Robert Crumb Muriel Spark Mafia law

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The New Yorker Magazine February 21, 1994, the complete issue in magnificent shape, as-new. This is The New Yorker’s annual anniversary issue, with a particularly historic cover: Robert Crumb’s first cover for The New Yorker, and the first parody of the magazine’s traditional anniversary cover featuring its mascot, Eustace Tilley. Crumb replaces the elegant top-hatted Tilley with a decidedly 1990s downtown type—a scruffy young man in a backwards baseball cap, earrings, and T-shirt, solemnly examining a handbill advertising “Adult XXX Video — The Playpen,” illustrated with a nude woman, while other similarly dressed New Yorkers mill about against the Manhattan skyline. It is a wonderfully irreverent transformation of one of the most famous images in magazine history. Here are a few highlights from this issue, with the entirety of the contents detailed further down: Susan Orlean visits Tonya Harding’s home territory in Clackamas County, Oregon, meeting members of the Tonya Harding Fan Club and exploring the class and cultural world surrounding the suddenly notorious figure skater. Fredric Dannen contributes an extensive Annals of Law examination of brilliant criminal defense lawyer Gerald Shargel, his work for organized-crime figures, and his extraordinary relationship with John Gotti. Julian Barnes reports from London on Salman Rushdie, five years after the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa, considering Rushdie’s continuing life under protection and the British government’s response

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1994
• Condition: Fine

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