War and Peace and Pandemic, and Roger Angell on Baseball Seasons Past
The contributor Yiyun Li is a fiction writer who also teaches creative writing at Princeton University. “The campus is empty,” she tells Joshua Rothman. “The city is quiet. It has a different feeling....
14 Apr 202031min
Amid a Pandemic, Catharsis at Seven O’Clock
David Remnick on the hope and catharsis that he finds in New York City’s daily mass cheer, which celebrates all those who are keeping the city alive at their peril. Plus, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on th...
10 Apr 202018min
Exploitation in the Amazon
This week, Jair Bolsonaro, the President of Brazil, ignored the advice of his own health minister, and went for a walk in the capitol, declaring “We’ll all die one day.” Bolsonaro, a right-wing populi...
7 Apr 202023min
Why We Underestimated COVID-19, and DJ D-Nice’s Club Quarantine
Despite the warnings of politicians and health-care professionals, many have failed to treat the coronavirus pandemic as a serious threat: the spring breakers on beaches, the crowds in city parks. Dan...
3 Apr 202026min
Alcoholics Anonymous Goes Remote, and Jia Tolentino on Quarantine
An old Alcoholics Anonymous slogan goes, “Seven days without an A.A. meeting makes one weak.” But COVID-19 has made in-person meetings impossible in many situations, removing the foundation on which m...
31 Mar 202016min
E.R. Doctors on the COVID-19 Crisis, and the Politics of a Pandemic
Across the country, doctors and nurses are being forced to care for an increasing number of COVID patients with dwindling supplies and no clear end to the outbreak in sight. Two emergency-room doctors...
27 Mar 202033min
The Shock Wave of COVID-19
As the coronavirus pandemic brings the country to a standstill, David Remnick and New Yorker writers examine the scope of the damage—emotional, physical, and economic. Remnick speaks with a medical et...
20 Mar 202049min
Astrid Holleeder’s Crime Family
All her life, Astrid Holleeder knew that her older brother Willem was involved in crime; in their tough Amsterdam neighborhood, and as children of an abusive father, it wasn’t a shocking development. ...
17 Mar 202029min
