From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus

Plus: how social-media platforms handle misinformation in a crisis, Netflix’s “The Tiger King,” and a remembrance of Terrence McNally. View in browser | Update your preferences Elements From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which honed its viral genome for thousands of years, behaves like a monstrous mutant hybrid of all the coronaviruses that came before it. By Carolyn Kormann Picks from the Editors Letter from Trump’s Washington The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Trump O’Clock Follies The President’s mendacious nightly press briefings will go down in history for their monumental flimflammery. By Susan B. Glasser Daily Comment What the Coronavirus Crisis Has and Hasn’t Changed About Social Media A bad tweet, morally speaking, is often a good tweet, judging strictly by the numbers. By Andrew Marantz Q. & A. A Manhattan E.R. Doctor Recalls 9/11 While Treating COVID-19 Patients Antonio Dajer, who treated patients four blocks from the World Trade Center on 9/11, talks about the differences between that crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. By Isaac Chotiner Culture and More Page-Turner The National Emergency Library Is a Gift to Readers Everywhere The Internet Archive is providing free access to a trove of 1.4 million digitized books to help ease the strain of the coronavirus crisis. By Jill Lepore Postscript Rage for Terrence McNally That the playwright was one of the first prominent American artists to be taken by the coronavirus pandemic feels petty, an ending that should have been rewritten out of town. By Michael Schulman Culture Desk I Clicked and Seven Hours Passed: Netflix’s “Tiger King” The show follows the rise and fall of an eccentric Oklahoma zoo entrepreneur known as Joe Exotic, whose story stretches even the most vivid imagination. By Rachel Syme Culture Desk The Group Making Quarantine Songs on a Barcelona Rooftop A trio of Catalan musicians in their twenties have become social-media sensations for their songs about acting responsibly during the coronavirus quarantine. By Jonathan Blitzer Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Sheltering in Place at My Parents’ House, in Haikus Do you pay mortgage / On this pantry? Don’t think so. / SkinnyPop is mine. By Caroline Lazar Daily Cartoon Friday, March 27th Not all sports are cancelled. By Bob Eckstein Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.