The New Yorker - USA (2020-03-23)

5 THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Steve Coll on the pandemic and Trump’s provocations;

a match made in quarantine; epidemic eavesdropping;

millennials get Lampooned; big into gilding.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES

Jill Lepore 10 But Who’s Counting?

This year’s census could be the last.

REFLECTIONS

Geoff Dyer 17 Existential Inconvenience

A writer’s life in the time of coronavirus.

ANNALS OF NATURE

James Somers 19 Cold War

Fighting avalanches with science.

PROFILES

Emily Nussbaum 26 Skin in the Game

The raw sounds of Fiona Apple.

LETTER FROM BOLIVIA

Jon Lee Anderson 38 The Burnt Palace

Evo Morales’s fall from power.

FICTION

Kate Folk 50 “Out There”

THE CRITICS

BOOKS

Atul Gawande 59 Why Americans are dying from despair.

61 Briefly Noted

THE THEATRE

Alexandra Schwartz 64 “Endlings.”

MUSICAL EVENTS

Alex Ross 66 “The Flying Dutchman,” “Agrippina.”

THE CURRENT CINEMA

Anthony Lane 68 “The Truth,” “The Booksellers.”

POEMS

Robert Pinsky 32 “Beach Glass”

Kimiko Hahn 54 “To be a daughter and to have a daughter”

COVER

Christoph Niemann “Critical Mass”

MARCH 23, 2020

As a result of the coronavirus crisis and the closing of New York City venues,

Goings On About Town will not appear this week.

DRAWINGS Frank Cotham, Drew Dernavich, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby,
Roz Chast, Liana Finck, Zachary Kanin, Emily Flake, Brendan Loper, Harry Bliss, Lars Kenseth,
Edward Koren, Matilda Borgström, Liza Donnelly S POTS Marcellus Hall