On September 11, 2001, Françoise Mouly, the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993, was walking to vote in the mayoral primaries with her husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, when a plane flew low overhead and struck the north tower, visible at the end of their street. They rushed to their daughter’s high school in the towers’ shadow, spending 90 harrowing minutes in the school before they located her. Stepping out, they watched the second tower disintegrate. Shortly thereafter, Mouly was to
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On September 11, 2001, Françoise Mouly, the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993, was walking to vote in the mayoral primaries with her husband, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, when a plane flew low overhead and struck the north tower, visible at the end of their street. They rushed to their daughter’s high school in the towers’ shadow, spending 90 harrowing minutes in the school before they located her. Stepping out, they watched the second tower disintegrate. Shortly thereafter, Mouly was to
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