This Week’s Issue: Alabama’s Cervical-Cancer Disgrace

Plus: How the coronavirus behaves inside a patient, the unravelling of a dancer, and the history of loneliness. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Medicine A Preventable Cancer Is on the Rise in Alabama The state’s refusal to expand Medicaid is causing poor women to miss out on lifesaving screenings. By Eyal Press Coronavirus Chronicles How Does the Coronavirus Behave Inside a Patient? We’ve counted the viral spread across peoples; now we need to count it within people. By Siddhartha Mukherjee A Reporter at Large The Unravelling of a Dancer Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path? By Rachel Aviv Letter from Yangquan China’s Struggles with Hospice Care As social transformations sweep the country, who will tend to the dying? By Jiayang Fan Comment The Meaning of Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Quackery The President’s pronouncements are a reminder, if one was needed, of his scorn for rigorous science, even amid the worst pandemic to hit the U.S. in a century. By Steve Coll A Critic at Large Pandemics and the Shape of Human History Outbreaks have sparked riots and propelled public-health innovations, prefigured revolutions and redrawn maps. By Elizabeth Kolbert Books The History of Loneliness Until a century or so ago, almost no one lived alone; now many endure shutdowns and lockdowns on their own. How did modern life get so lonely? By Jill Lepore Books Inside Tove Jansson’s Private Universe Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Jansson was a cartoonist, writer, and creator of all sorts, whose fans clamored for more of her strange and enthralling fictional worlds. By Sheila Heti Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Books & Fiction Newsletter Book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature, twice a week. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Fear of Missing Out If I go to the grocery store to wander the aisles of canned food which have nothing left, I’ll miss Skyping with my friend while we say over and over, “This is so crazy.” By Cora Frazier Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. 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.