The New Yorker - USA (2020-04-13)

THE NEWYORKER, APRIL 13, 2020 1

4 GOINGSONABOUTTOWN

11 THETALKOFTHETOWN

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”

THECRITICS

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

APRIL 13, 2020

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