Mark Ulriksen’s “Childless Cat Lady Inexplicably Enjoying Life”

Mark Ulriksen’s “Childless Cat Lady Inexplicably Enjoying Life”

For the cover of the September 16, 2024, Fall Books special issue, Mark Ulriksen painted a woman, alone, surrounded by cats and happily engrossed in reading—an example of the “childless cat ladies” decried by J. D. Vance, the Vice-Presidential Republican candidate, in an interview from 2021. Vance’s remarks—in which he claims that these women are … Read more