Joel Smith's richly illustrated volume explores Steinberg's remarkable artistic range and unceasing evolution as an American Modernist. All of the artist's New Yorker covers appear in full color, as do many of the drawings that were published in the magazine in black-and-white.

For nearly six decades, Saul Steinberg's covers, cartoons, features, and illustrations adorned the pages of The New Yorker. As the magazine became a standard-bearer of taste and intelligence in American letters, Steinberg’s drawings emerged as its visual epitome, and the artist gained recognition as one of the great originals of the twentieth century.