The New Yorker Magazine: September 11, 2001 Issue

The 9/11 Memorial Issue. Now considered one of the New Yorker Magazine's single most important issues, it is one of the first instant classics in American literary and photographic reportage of the 21st century. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. The cover features the reproduction of the black-on-black lithograph, "9/11/01", by Art Spiegelman, one of the artist's greatest creations. The towers can be seen only against the light and from a certain angle. When the cover is viewed at eye level, they are invisible, which of course, is Spiegelman's eloquent point. Contributions by various Donald Antrim, Jonathan Franzen, John Updike, Susan Sontag (the most controversial piece of them all), Aharon Appelfeld, Denis Johnson, Rebecca Mead, Amitav Ghosh, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Roger Angell. Color and black-and-white photographs by Joel Meyerowitz and Gilles Peress. Overlay with "September 11, 2001" boldly printed vertically in red. Some of the world's greatest writers, journalists, artists, and photographers. 2007 ModernRare.com