On February 21, 2025, The New Yorker, the iconic American weekly, celebrated its 100th anniversary. For the occasion, the magazine with illustrated covers offered a contemporary interpretation of its original front page from 1925. It depicted a fictional aristocrat named Eustace Tilley observing a butterfly through his monocle, both a symbol and mascot of the publication. A century later, American artist Kerry James Marshall transformed this insect into a drone, scrutinized by a robotic version of the man from the Roaring Twenties.
Mostly admiring the journalistic qualities of the publication, Le Monde began by criticizing the American media outlet when it mentioned it for the first time on March 2, 1945. In an article about elections in New Caledonia, journalist Jean Le Guevel took exception to the importance The New Yorker attached to the overseas electoral process, making it an "indication" of France's future: "It must be acknowledged that its author, Lawrence Lader, is not lacking in imagination nor in that journalistic technique which turns the simplest events into something sensational," Le Guevel wrote.
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