He whittled down wooden blocks to make a whole bunch of pens, matchboxes, postcards. He made speech bubbles with quarter-inch wood, geometric shapes, notebooks, all drawn upon and painted with ink and wax crayons. Then he’d glue them to large sheets of wood, making dioramas of his life…

- Anton von Dalon, speaking about his friend, the artist Saul Steinberg.  Steinberg’s “Union Square, 1973” is featured on the cover of this week’s issue. Click-through for more on the artist, and for a slideshow featuring some of the 87 New Yorker covers he published in his lifetime: http://nyr.kr/QWcgjT