Editing The New Yorker (section)

==== Crown Heights in 1993 ====
For the 1993 [[Valentine's Day]] issue, the cover by [[Art Spiegelman]] depicted a black woman and a [[Hasidic Jew]]ish man kissing, referencing the [[Crown Heights riot]] of 1991.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Campbell |first=James |date=August 28, 2004 |title=Drawing pains |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/aug/28/comics.politics |url-status=live |access-date=May 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828045435/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/aug/28/comics.politics |archive-date=August 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name="npr">{{Cite web |last=Chideya |first=Farai |date=July 15, 2008 |title=Cartoonist Speaks His Mind on Obama Cover: News & Views |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/07/cartoonist_speaks_mind_on_obam.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413132622/http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/07/cartoonist_speaks_mind_on_obam.html |archive-date=April 13, 2010 |access-date=October 15, 2010 |publisher=[[NPR]]}}</ref> The cover was criticized by both black and Jewish observers.<ref name="shapiro">{{Cite book |last=Shapiro |first=Edward S. |title=Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot |publisher=[[UPNE]] |year=2006 |page=211}}</ref> Jack Salzman and [[Cornel West]] called the reaction to the cover the magazine's "first national controversy".<ref name="salzman">{{Cite book |last1=Jack Salzman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C2MJkRjpOHoC&q=Struggles+in+the+Promised+Land:+Towards+a+History+of+Black-Jewish+Relations+in+the+United+States |title=Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States |last2=Cornel West |publisher=Oxford University Press US |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-19-508828-1 |page=373 |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=June 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604013817/https://books.google.com/books?id=C2MJkRjpOHoC&q=Struggles+in+the+Promised+Land:+Towards+a+History+of+Black-Jewish+Relations+in+the+United+States#v=snippet&q=Struggles%20in%20the%20Promised%20Land%3A%20Towards%20a%20History%20of%20Black-Jewish%20Relations%20in%20the%20United%20States&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>