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CONTRIBUTORS
Peter Hessler (“Life on Lockdown,”
p. 26) is a staff writer. His latest book
is “The Buried: An Archaeology of
the Egyptian Revolution.”
Jill Lepore (“Don’t Come Any Closer,”
p. 22), a professor of history at Harvard,
will publish “If Then” in September.
Philip Montgomery (“Abundance of Cau-
tion,” p. 38), a photographer, has been
a regular contributor to The New Yorker
since 2015. In 2018, his work on the opi-
oid epidemic won the National Mag-
azine Award for feature photography.
Doreen St. Félix (On Television, p. 65)
is The New Yorker’s television critic.
She has been a staff writer since 2017.
Chris Ware (Comic Strip, p. 35) is a writer
and an artist. His latest book, “Rusty
Brown,” was published in the fall.
W. S. Di Piero (Poem, p. 60) is the au-
thor of, most recently, the poetry col-
lection “The Complaints” and “Mickey
Rourke and the Bluebird of Happi-
ness: A Poet’s Notebooks.”
Susan B. Glasser (“Hope Dies Last,”
p. 14), a staff writer, was the founding
editor of Politico Magazine. In May,
she will publish, with Peter Baker, “The
Man Who Ran Washington.”
Adam Gopnik (“Abundance of Caution,”
p. 38) has been a staff writer since 1986.
His books include “A Thousand Small
Sanities.”
Casey Cep (Books, p. 71) is a staff writer
and the author of “Furious Hours:
Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of
Harper Lee.”
Han Ong (Fiction, p. 56) is a playwright
and a novelist. His first New Yorker
story appeared in the 2019 Fiction Issue.
Jorie Graham (Poem, p. 30) teaches at
Harvard. She will publish a new poetry
collection, “Runaway,” in September.
Eric Drooker (Cover) is a painter and a
graphic novelist. Recently, his drawings
were on display at the Guggenheim
Museum. This is his thirty-sixth cover
for the magazine.
N EWS DESK
How can we keep physicians and
nurses healthy amid the coronavirus
pandemic? Atul Gawande reports.
ELEMENTS
Elisabeth Eaves on whether building
more bio labs will help us fight
outbreaks or result in catastrophe.
LEFT: TSUJI KEITH / ABACA / ZUMA; RIGHT: K. L. RICKS
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