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Cartoon by Edward Koren. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/YCe9PO
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Thankfully, a blizzard loses much of its menace on a mountain, where it achieves a purpose. Fresh powder is the skier’s ideal condition… it makes each trail feel like a new one: on almost every trip I took down the mountain, there was a pile of snow that I went through before anyone else had touched it. Powder also opens up more dangerous paths…
Reeves Wiedeman writes about skiing Nemo: http://nyr.kr/Va7GAD
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Illustrator Birgit Schõssow on learning that her image would be on this week’s cover: “For a German illustrator, the goal can seem so very far away. Now, I’m so thrilled. I’ve never made an image with so few things on it, and there it is.”Click-through for a slideshow of past New Yorker covers about winter sports: http://nyr.kr/YzAF1F
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For the winter holiday, here is a selection of pictures by Martin Parr, master of the leisure-class photograph—from indoor skiing in Dubai to the mountain resorts of Switzerland: http://nyr.kr/TlRzws
