The New Yorker - USA (2020-05-04)

THE NEWYORKER, MAY 4, 2020 1

4 GOINGSONABOUTTOWN

11 THETALKOFTHETOWN

Steve Coll on the politics of COVID-19;

Tom Sachs; hospital workers at the Four Seasons;

Stephen Malkmus; a farewell to handshakes.

ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Charles Duhigg 16 The Pandemic Protocol

Listening to the Epidemic Intelligence Service.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Nick Hornby 23 What to Watch During the Lockdown:

Month 38

CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES

Siddhartha Mukherjee 24 After the Storm

The flaws of our health-care system revealed.

OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS

32 April 15, 2020

Twenty-four hours in New York’s struggle.

PORTFOLIO
Karen Cunningham 48 A City Nurse
with David Remnick Faces of the I.C.U.

FICTION

Allan Gurganus 62 “The Wish for a Good Young

Country Doctor”

THECRITICS

A CRITIC AT LARGE

Jill Lepore 70 Why the Kent State shootings still matter.

BOOKS

Anthony Gottlieb 76 The remarkable mind of Frank Ramsey.

79 Briefly Noted

ON TELEVISION

Doreen St. Félix 80 “#blackAF.”

MUSICAL EVENTS

Alex Ross 82 Streaming Víkingur Ólafsson and Liza Lim.

POEMS

Eavan Boland 28 “Eviction”

Ada Limón 67 “The End of Poetry”

COVER

Chris Ware “Still Life”

MAY 4, 2020

DRAWINGS Liza Donnelly, Robert Leighton, Amy Hwang,

Roz Chast, Mick Stevens, Liana Finck, Julia Suits,

Frank Cotham, Lars Kenseth, Peter Steiner, Karl Stevens, Edward Steed,

Elisabeth McNair, Ali Solomon S POTS Pablo Amargo

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