The 10 Best Magazine Covers of 2011

The New Yorker: Dark Spring, March 28 The tsunami, earthquake and nuclear meltdown that hit Japan in March weren't easy to capture, but this cover reflected the "eerie silence" that struck artist Christoph Niemann in videos and interviews following the disasters. And instead of drawing the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which lacked the hourglass-shaped cooling towers we associate with nuclear facilities, Niemann rendered cherry blossoms as radiation trefoils.