Cartoon by Barbara Smaller. For more: http://nyr.kr/Ri7Fmz

“It’s the darkest, richest ghost story I’ve ever read.”

Brad Leithauser on Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw”.

Cartoon of the night by Danny Shanahan. For more: http://nyr.kr/Rpx3Ig

Cartoon of the night by Peter C. Vey. For more: http://nyr.kr/RqLvzH

Happy Halloween!

“There’s a lot of perspective in this scene, and all of the gobbledy gook: the Oriental rug, grand painting, grand furniture, and grand everything all around. And in the center is a bull’s eye—that little kid standing there, looking at you. He’s just knocked on the door and he’s going to scare the hell out of somebody.”

- This week’s cover artist, George Booth, chooses eight of his favorite New Yorker Halloween covers: http://ow.ly/7ds5E

Our 2009 Halloween cover.

Our 1975 Halloween cover.

Our 1958 Halloween cover.

Our 2001 Halloween cover.