Jonathan Taylor writes:
At her website, Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, gives a little backstory on the development of the obviously fun cover by Roz Chast—and also links to a compilation of Masonic references in New Yorker cartoons (as of 2004).

Jonathan Taylor writes:
The Oxford American unleashes Chang, as G.H.W. Bush might say, with its own detailed story on Calvin Trillin’s subject last of week—with a Remnick epigraph on the coincidence. (Via Tyler Cowen.)