Like so many of you, the editors, writers, and artists at The New Yorker are doing what we can to “flatten the curve,” to help slow the spread of the new coronavirus. And so, last week, the staff packed up our office at One World Trade Center and headed home. Which is where we all working now, whether home is in Brooklyn or London or Chengdu. But, no matter where we are working from, we are determined to deliver for you in every way possible—to publish work that is vital, accurate, and essential to the moment. Amid the demands of “social-distancing,” we are, like you, finding creative ways to keep in touch with one another and do the very best work we can for you. As part of that effort, we’ve made our news coverage and analysis of the current crisis on newyorker.com available for free to all readers. I hope you’ll take the time, as well, to read us on other subjects—the new Profile of Fiona Apple, say. You can depend on us to go on reporting, writing, and editing with a commitment to the truth. That’s our promise to you, now and always.
—David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker
Profiles
Fiona Apple’s Art of Radical Sensitivity
For years, the elusive singer-songwriter has been working, at home, on an album with a strikingly raw and percussive sound. But is she prepared to release it into the world?
By Emily Nussbaum
Annals of Nature
Snow Science Against the Avalanche
On slopes shallow enough to accumulate snow but steep enough for it to be unstable, chaos hides beneath the surface.
By James Somers
Letter from Bolivia
The Fall of Evo Morales
A controversial socialist leader fled his country. Was he deposed—or did he escape justice?
By Jon Lee Anderson
Books
Why Americans Are Dying from Despair
The unfairness of our economy, two economists argue, can be measured not only in dollars but in deaths.
By Atul Gawande
American Chronicles
Will This Year’s Census Be the Last?
In the past two centuries, the evolution of the U.S. Census has tracked the country’s social tensions and reflected its political controversies. Now its future is in question.
By Jill Lepore
Comment
Trump’s Discordant Display of Nativism in a Pandemic
Trump won the Presidency while pledging to wall America off from the world. The covid-19 crisis has reinforced his deep-seated belief in this impossibility.
By Steve Coll
Reflections
The Existential Inconvenience of Coronavirus
The physical effects of the outbreak lie in the future, but the psychic toll is already huge—and wide-ranging.
By Geoff Dyer
The Current Cinema
The Generational Anxieties of “The Truth”
Trouble may be brewing between a mother and a daughter (Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche), but the director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s approach is elliptical to a fault.
By Anthony Lane
Humor from The New Yorker
Sketchpad
Heard on the Street
New Yorkers air their anxieties as covid-19 spreads.
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