He New Yorker celebrates a century of existence, and for the last third of its existence, Françoise Mouly has been responsible for choosing—and guiding—its iconic covers as art director. These are images by the world's best illustrators that comment on the week's current events with a touch of irony, but also contemplate the course of the year or reflect on what it means to be an illustrated urbanite today. A key figure in the American cultural landscape of the last half-century, Mouly visited Barcelona for Kosmopolis, accompanied by her husband, the celebrated comic book author Art Spiegelman.

She, Lillian Ross, was for more than half a century one of the magazine's most prolific and iconic journalists New Yorker, author of several pieces that have gone down in the history of modern journalism, for example a profile she wrote in 1950 about the ebullient but somewhat caricature-like Ernest Hemingway. He, William Shawn, was not only the editor-in-chief for more than forty years of the New Yorker He was not only the man who transformed the legendary weekly into the world's most prestigious publication, but he was also the man who transformed the legendary weekly into the world's most prestigious publication, all thanks to a perfectly bold, rigorous, and balanced blend of extensive and in-depth journalism, literature, humor, and meticulous attention to every detail of journalistic work, from fact-checking to keystrokes. Although he was married with children and never neglected his family, Shawn and Ross fell in love and, for four decades, shared their lives, never hiding from anyone, not even his wife and children. Here, but not quite These are the memoirs that Ross wrote about that unique and memorable love story.

A century of journalism goes a long way and the New Yorker has more than fulfilled its promise: in addition to its eminently cultural articles of great depth, there are tens of thousands of jokes that have redefined the comic strip genre as a social commentary, and all of this has been served up wrapped in exquisite covers that have often ended up becoming iconic. Taking advantage of the publication's centenary, we review some of these historic first pages.