The New Yorker - USA (2020-04-20)

4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

11 THE TALK OF THE TOWN

David Remnick on the politics of the virus;

a guiding hand for patients; ventilator ethics;

ministry in emergency; election dropouts.

POSTSCRIPT

Jonathan Blitzer 16 Juan Sanabria

New York remembers a COVID-19 victim.

DEPT. OF FINANCE

Nick Paumgarten 20 The Price of a Pandemic

Another shock to a vulnerable economy.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Alex Watt 25 When This Is All Over

LETTER FROM THE U.K.

Rebecca Mead 26 Fractured Fairy Tale

Harry, Meghan, and a collective reckoning.

ANNALS OF MEDICINE

Michael Specter 34 The Good Doctor

Where did Anthony Fauci come from?

PORTFOLIO

Mark Peterson 46 First Responders

A REPORTER AT LARGE

Jane Mayer 54 Enabler-in-Chief

Mitch McConnell ’s fight for power.

FICTION

Ben Lerner 68 “The Media”

THE CRITICS

POP MUSIC

Amanda Petrusich 70 A crisis soundtrack from the Strokes.

BOOKS

Jerome Groopman 73 The state of surgery.

Madeleine Schwartz 77 Annie Ernaux’s memoirs.

79 Briefly Noted

ON TELEVISION

Alexandra Schwartz 80 “Better Things,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

POEMS

John Freeman 38 “The Ex-Basketball Players”

Julia Story 61 “Toad Circus”

COVER

Owen Smith “After the Shift”

DRAWINGS Michael Maslin, Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Jeremy Nguyen, Liza Donnelly,
Jason Adam Katzenstein, Colin Tom, Brendan Loper, Edward Koren, Danny Shanahan, William Haefeli, Roz Chast,
Will McPhail, Liana Finck, Charlie Hankin, Adam Douglas Thompson S POTS Robert Samuel Hanson

APRIL 20, 2020