The Epicenter of America’s Coronavirus Crisis

Plus: Biden’s path to beating Trump; the coronavirus shutdown hits campuses and Broadway shows; and “The Simpsons.” View in browser | Update your preferences The New Yorker is making its news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus outbreak available for free to all readers. Read our stories here. Dispatch A Week at the Epicenter of America’s Coronavirus Crisis Seattle, accustomed to being in the news for its tech innovations, now is known as ground zero of a deadly epidemic poised to sweep the continent. By James Ross Gardner As Told To When the Coronavirus Comes to Rural Georgia Clay County has one doctor and no newspaper. “I imagine there will be people with it within the next few weeks here,” the doctor says. By Charles Bethea Our Columnists Joe Biden Is Giving the Trump White House Reasons to Be Worried The results from Tuesday’s Democratic Presidential primary in Michigan provided the strongest evidence yet that Biden’s electoral strategy may be a viable one. By John Cassidy Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Daily Humor Newsletter Cartoons and more funny stuff in your in-box. Culture and the Coronavirus Culture Desk The Coronavirus and the Ruptured Narrative of Campus Life Colleges are trying to figure out their way forward in a story in which meanings have suddenly and drastically changed. By Dan Chiasson Cultural Comment The Coronavirus Shutdown Is Necessary for Broadway Shows have been cancelled through April 12th, during one of the busiest parts of the season. By Michael Schulman On Television The TV Studio Audience Goes Missing in the Coronavirus Crisis This dispersal of community has an eeriness that is both actual and metaphorical: a symptom of a new approach to public space. By Troy Patterson More in Culture Rabbit Holes The Aesthetic Splendor of “The Simpsons” Stand-alone images from the show are as quietly stunning as any made by our greatest American artists of alienation and loneliness. By Naomi Fry Postscript The Dominican Republic’s Immortal Sports Historian Sports are only as memorable as the people who remember them. Cuqui Cordova remembered. By Jonathan Blitzer Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts National-Park Safety Rules for Millennials Rule No. 1: Never Hike Alone. If you hike alone, there will be no one to take the full-body Instagrams that your perv followers demand. By Blythe Roberson Daily Cartoon Friday, March 13th By Peter Kuper 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.