Six reasons this may be the best New Yorker ever (shameless self promotion post)

The Dan Clowes cover includes an alien who, like yours truly, would never touch a Kindle, even post-apocalypse; there is a poem by Sherman Alexie that begins "Here's a fact: Some people want to live more / Than others do"; Louis Menand defines creative writing workshops: "The workshop is...an unscripted performance space, a regime for forcing people to do two things that are fundamentally contrary to human nature: actually write stuff (as opposed to planning to write stuff very, very soon), and then sit there while strangers tear it apart"; the lovely Ada Limon has a lovely poem; R. Crumb's Book of Genesis is excerpted for the first time by anyone anywhere, and I interviewed Pete Poplaski, his cartoonist comrade in the trenches of epic movie-watching, about the visual resources required to put faces on all those begats.