This Week’s Issue: A Missionary on Trial

Plus: Pandemic dispatches from Lorrie Moore, Karen Russell, Edwidge Danticat, Gary Shteyngart, Ben Lerner, and more. View in browser | Update your preferences Dispatches from a Pandemic: Gary Shteyngart on adjusting to life under quarantine. Lorrie Moore on the pandemic as a kind of zombie apocalypse. Maggie Nelson on finding moments of calm. Karen Russell on the language of the pandemic. Rick Moody on the challenges of remote learning. Edwidge Danticat on how the coronavirus will affect immigrant communities. Vinson Cunningham on mental exercises to ward off horror. Weike Wang on cancelled flights. Ben Lerner on what really matters to Trump. Rebecca Mead on how London looks during the pandemic. Bryan Washington on the grocers on the front lines in Houston. Donald Antrim on how music can bring relief. Plus: illustrators around the world share scenes of their eerily empty cities. A Reporter at Large A Missionary on Trial Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible? By Ariel Levy Dept. of Science The Quest for a Pandemic Pill Can we prepare antivirals to combat the next global crisis? By Matthew Hutson Letter from Los Angeles Home Alone Together, in L.A. The best we can do is disappear into the great indoors. By Geoff Dyer Annals of Gastronomy Baking Bread in Lyon For a newcomer to the city, a boulangerie apprenticeship reveals a way of life. By Bill Buford Comment New York City in the Coronavirus Pandemic The spectacle of New York without New Yorkers is the result of a communal pact. We know that life now depends on our withdrawal from the city. By David Remnick On Television The Crass Pleasures of “Tiger King” The hit Netflix true-crime series revels in its subjects, human beasts and their prey. By Doreen St. Félix The Art World Mortality and the Old Masters Once we are again free to wander museums, the objects won’t have altered, but we will have, and the casualties of the coronavirus will accompany us spectrally. By Peter Schjeldahl Books Dorothy Day’s Radical Faith The life and legacy of the Catholic writer and activist, whom some hope will be made a saint. By Casey Cep Humor from The New Yorker Sketchpad Quarantine Cupboard: Day Twenty The dregs of the pantry. By Edward Steed 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.