The New Yorker - USA (2020-04-13)

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THE NEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 1 4 GOINGSONABOUTTOWN 11 THETALKOFTHETOWN David Remnick on New York’s empty streets; a view from t ...

2 THE NEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 CONTRIBUTORS Ariel Levy (“The Mission,” p. 50) is a staff writer. Her most recent book is the me ...

THE NEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 3 “deaths of despair,” as the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton call them—overlooks a historic ...

Like millions of people around the world, New Yorkers are staying at home. When they must go out—say, to walk the dog in Prospec ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 5 © MAMMA ANDERSSON / ARS, NEW YORK / BILDUPPHOVSRÄTT, SWEDEN / COURTESY THE ARTIST AND DAVID ZWIR ...

6 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY ELENI KALORKOTI There may be no greater balm for the spirit than the ballets of ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 7 ILLUSTRATION BY QIEER WANG There remains something powerful about black musicians creating outsi ...

8 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 COURTESY MUG-SHOT PRODUCTIONS The title of the series “Space Is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 9 PHOTOGRAPH BY ERIC HELGAS FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFORTWO Chefs ...

Help feed NYC’s children and families now. With the COVID-19 crisis forcing schools and many businesses to close, NYC’s children ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 11 COMMENT LIFEAT THEEPICENTER T he streets of New York City are so desolate now that you half exp ...

12 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 INTHEE.R. RAMPINGUP F or ten years, I’ve been an attending emergency-medicine physician at Broo ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 13 1 DEPT.OFNAVIGATION BRINGINGINTHECOMFORT T he Navy hospital ship Comfort went under the Verrazz ...

14 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 was not much different than docking any tanker, although it’s easier to pull up parallel to a d ...

1 THENEWDRILL HAZARDPAY I hate to be like this, but my commute is wonderful now. It takes me fifteen minutes to drive to work, a ...

16 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 With each new virus, we’ve scrambled for a new treatment. Our approach has been “one bug, one d ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 17 an outbreak in the Arabian Peninsula; Middle East respiratory syndrome, as it was called, sicke ...

18 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 viruses remains the vaccine—but vac- cines (at least the kinds we’ve formulated so far) tend to ...