THE NEW YORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 14 GOINGS ON ABOUTTOWN
11 THE TALK OF THETOWN
David Remnick on New York’s empty streets;
a view from the E.R.; the Navy’s ship comes in;
the death of a father; the front line of the grocery.
DEPT. OF SCIENCE
Matthew Hutson 16 Attack Mode
The search for the solution to the next virus.
SHOWCASE
Moises Saman 19 Curfew begins in Amman, Jordan.
LETTER FROM LOS ANGELES
Geoff Dyer 23 Home Alone Together
Solidarity in the new domesticity.
ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY
Bill Buford 26 Good Bread
Mastering the art of French baking.
34 DISPATCHES FROM A PANDEMIC
Twelve writers on life in the time of COVID-19.
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Ariel Levy 50 The Mission
Was a “white savior” in Uganda falsely accused?
FICTION
Tessa Hadley 62 “The Other One”
THE CRITICS
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 70 The Old Masters and our transience.
BOOKS
Casey Cep 73 The radical faith of Dorothy Day.
77 Briefly Noted
Dan Chiasson 78 Joyelle McSweeney’s “Toxicon and Arachne.”
ON TELEVISION
Doreen St. Félix 80 “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”
POEMS
Deborah Garrison 20 “After Sex, Checking for Instagram Posts
by My Kids, and Other Avoidance Strategies”
Arthur Sze 67 “Transpirations”
COVER
Pascal Campion “Lifeline”DRAWINGS Barbara Smaller, Roz Chast, Mike Twohy,
Bruce Eric Kaplan, Tom Toro, P. C. Vey, Liana Finck, Ellis Rosen, Zachary Kanin,
Frank Cotham, Brooke Bourgeois S POTS Anthony Russo
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