Adam Zyglis likes to steer toward the political heat, so he tracked events intently as the Florida sand turned into a pandemic hot spot. As some of the state’s beaches reopened last week, the ...

The Grim Reaper—that black-coated, scythe-carrying personification of death—has appeared in over a hundred and four cartoons in The New Yorker since 1937. But where was he prior to that?