The_New_Yorker_-_March_30_2020

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MAR.CH 30, 2020

+ GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
9 THE TALK OF lHE TOWN
David Remnid on COrID-19 and alternative facts;
chicken 'With a side ef sanitiur; teen eorona tradur;
the trJilet-paper !Joarrkn; 'Viral '°nnedi<ms.
THE POLITICAL SCEllE
Suran B. Glasser I+ Hope Dies Last
The Newr 7"Pnper who won't give up.
SHOUT.f & MUR.MUl\S
Jolm Kenney 21 Guidelines
ANNALS OF OJLTIJl\E
fJI Lepure 22 Don't Come Any Closer
What can we learn from the literature ef contagiDn?
LETTER. FROM CHENGDU
Peter Hessler 26 Life on Lockdown
.A family's ~ce rf Chinas nationwide quaranti1'14.
COMICSTRJP
Chrit Ware 35 "Self-Isolating: A Pandemic Special"

OLA\ LOCAL COl\RESPONDENTS
.Adam Gopnill 38 Abundance of Caution
with Philip Montgomery Fear and solitude as Nt!W Yorks ttreett empty.

FICTION
Han Ong 56 "Futures"

THE CRITICS
ON m..EVISION
Doreen St. F~iix 65 Turning to the 1creen for togethernm.

A.. a\J1lC A..T LA..RGE
David Denhy 67 Harry Houdini's many escapes.
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Carey Cep 71 The political amhitiOTU ef Joseph Smith.
73 Briefly Noted
Leo Robson 77 .Anna Kt.roans fictional experimentation.

THE lHEATRf
V-mson Cunningham 80 jean 'Ibomer's ':tf Drama rf the Southwest.·

POEMS
Jori4 Graham 30 "I Wont Live Long"
W. S. Di Piero 60 "Aubade"

COVER.
EritDroohr "Grand Central Terminal"

Dl\A..WINGS Sofia Warren, Paul Noth, Lars Kenseth, Zachary Kanin, Roz Chas!, Emily Flake,
Sara Lautman, Luke Kruger-Haward, David Ostrrw, Michael Maslin, Kim Warp SPOT.S Josh Cochran

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