The New Yorker - 30.03.2020

others might consider her "naive and quixotic," or at least "annoyingly ear- nest," but she was not ready to give up. 'Tm like C ...

would oppose the Democrats' effort to force the Senate to hear testimony from new witnesses. It was only a mat- ter of days witi ...

SHOl!fS & MURMURS 1 2 4 GUIDELINES BY JOI-IN KENNEY D on't panic. These are the two most impor- tant words to remember. Ther ...

ANNALS OF CULTUl\E DON'T COME ANY CLOSER. What} at stake in our fables of contagion? BY Jill. LEPORE 't 'l Then the pkgw: came t ...

But, of course, books are also a salve and a consolation. In the long centuries during which the plague ravaged Eu- rope, the qu ...

deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbC)'ll,"where they live in depraved luxury until, one night, at a masked ball, a figu ...

the breath of other humans, and, very often-in the competition for dimin- ishing resources-the mere existence of other humans. C ...

LETTER. Fl\OM CHENGDU LIFE ON LOCKDOWN Forty-five days of awiding the corona'Dirus in China. BY Prn.R. Hf.£5LEI\. 0 n the twenty ...

for people to ignore rme another. The costumes of the quarantine, along with other restrictions, turned people inward. ILLUSTRAT ...

dollies and shopping carts, dropping off boxes and bags. In my lobby, the most packages I counted at any time was a hundred and ...

in technology made the sequencing pos- sible, a crucial step that allowed scien- tists to develop ways to diagnose the disease a ...

I WON'T LIVE LONG enough to see any of the new dreams the hundreds of new kinds of suffering and weeds birds animals shouldering ...

terra 6rma and you knew as he held your hand insisting you hold your ground that there was foreclosure, there was oldness of a k ...

"I think my dad is lo.ring his memory-he keeps forgetting to say hes proud of me.,. they said that sales were terrible. Ther ...

and people are going to get tired ofit." In the meantime, there were no an- ~ts ofhowlongschoolswould be closed, or when the loc ...

organiud periodic door-to-door sur- veys, which was how they learned of the resident's Hubei trip. Thus fa.r, people had come to ...

COMIC STl\IP 6Y CHl\IS WARE flANDEm\C SPECIFU.! HOLY cow,.;: THE- WHOLE WOR..., HAS ESSENTIALLY SHUTDOWN.' BUT PEOPLE ARE CONFUS ...

the past forty or fifty days he has been doing online courses, and he spends so much time online. His father said he's very like ...

"The feet bit the ground first." "How can the family take this? My God! This jg 10 sad." "Jumped from the fifth floor, right~· " ...

OUI\ LOCAL COl\l\E.SPONDENTJ ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION Entering a time of containment, New Yor.k is at ii! hest and its worst. 8Y ADA ...