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

SHOWCASE BY MOISESSAMAN The photographer’s wife and child, in Amman, Jordan, March 21st: “It’s day two of a mandatory curfew—a v ...

20 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 with the polymerases and you interfere with the assembly of the viral genome. DNA and RNA molec ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 21 sivir has yet been shown to work in clin- ical trials.) “Most people do extensive testing on on ...

22 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 of cancer.” But pandemics arrive infre- quently and don’t necessarily stay for long—characteris ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 23 LETTER FROM LOS ANGELES ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN REA A fter everything changed, suddenly and unexp ...

24 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 a more widespread commitment—to support more extensive international coöperation—than has ever ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 25 hopefully extending the interval between infections so that my wife recovers from hers before I ...

26 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 The bread from Bob’s boulangerie united a neighborhood of food fanatics. ANNALS OFGASTRONOMY GO ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 27 ment was opposite a mural called “La Fresque des Lyonnais,” two millennia of the city’s famous ...

28 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 them off the walls. You could scrape all you needed from underneath Bob’s fingernails. I looked ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 29 Bob bought a lot of flours, but a farm in the Auvergne provided his favorite. The Auvergne, wes ...

wine, and served them with manifest reluctance. ( Jacqueline is Cuban and black. That evening, there was one other black person ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 31 ing, until the priest stopped the pro- ceedings: “He held my face between his hands, and looked ...

32 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 farmers who valued its freshness. It was, in effect, milled to order. He might get some at the ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 33 affluent in manner, was negotiating with the bread guy. “Mais, Pierre, s’il vous plaît. Just on ...

34 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 ATEMPORARYMOMENT INTIME S hakespeare did his finest work under quarantine, I keep hearing. I wo ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 35 NEW YORK CITY, BY JORGE COLOMBO ...

36 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 advice as well: “It’s really, really tough because you have to be honest with the American publ ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 37 BOLOGNA, ITALY, BY BIANCA BAGNARELLI are heeding a difficult call to stay at home. It’s a way o ...

38 THENEWYORKER,APRIL13, 2020 sheep. The weather is cold, with occa- sional intimations of spring. Everything is awaiting res ...