New YorkerestThe best of every New Yorker issue, since 1925

December 9, 2002

The New Yorker cover for December 9, 2002: “It keeps me from obsessing about my body.”

“It keeps me from obsessing about my body.”

Featured Pick

profiles

Whirlwind

John Lahr

How the filmmaker Mira Nair makes people see the world her way.

More picks from this issue

a critic at large

Looking at War

Susan Sontag