BEING spat on by a walrus, ­shaking my backside with a chipmunk and having Peter Pan declare me an “honorary Lost Boy” isn’t ...

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This heathen god of the elements has a now-iconic identity. But how much of it is modern invention – and how much goes way back? ’Thor Chasing the Dwarfs’, 1878. Depictions of the Scandinavian god ...

Roz Chast was born in Brooklyn. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a B.F.A. in painting in 1977. Her cartoons and covers have appeared continuously in The New Yorker since ...