The New Yorker - 13.04.2020

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THE NEW YORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 1 4 GOINGS ON ABOUTTOWN 11 THE TALK OF THETOWN David Remnick on New York’s empty streets; a view ...

2 THE NEW YORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 CONTRIBUTORS Ariel Levy (“The Mission,” p. 90) is a staff writer. Her most recent book is the m ...

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

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 ...

THE NEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 5 © MAMMA ANDERSSON / ARS, NEW YORK / BILDUPPHOVSRÄTT, SWEDEN / COURTESY THE ARTIST AND DAVID ZWIR ...

6 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY ELENI KALORKOTI There may be no greater balm for the spirit than the ballets of t ...

THE NEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 7 ILLUSTRATION BY QIEER WANG There remains something powerful about black musicians creating outsi ...

8 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 COURTESY MUG-SHOT PRODUCTIONS The title of the series “Space Is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film, ...

THE NEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 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, APRIL 13, 2020 11 COMMENT LIFEATTHEEPICENTER T he streets of New York City are so desolate now that you half expec ...

12 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 IN THE E.R. RAMPINGUP F or ten years, I’ve been an attending emergency-medicine physician at Bro ...

THE NEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 13 1 DEPT.OFNAVIGATION BRINGINGIN THE COMFORT T he Navy hospital ship Comfort went under the Verra ...

14 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 was not much different than docking any tanker, although it’s easier to pull up parallel to a do ...

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

16 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 With each new virus, we’ve scrambled for a new treatment. Our approach has been “one bug, one dr ...

THE NEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 17 an outbreak in the Arabian Peninsula; Middle East respiratory syndrome, as it was called, sicke ...

18 THENEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 viruses remains the vaccine—but vac- cines (at least the kinds we’ve formulated so far) tend to ...