Have Investors Lost Their Minds?

Plus: The riddle of solitude in the pandemic, Trump’s angry Presidential campaign, and a multimedia reading of an epic poem for quarantine. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists Have Investors Lost Their Minds? Small investors appear persuaded that the stock markets is headed for a “V”-shaped recovery. But history tells a more complicated story. By John Cassidy Personal History The Riddle of Solitude in the Age of the Coronavirus As a writer, I’ve always craved time alone. But the pandemic has shown me that not all solitude is created equal. By Jane Brox Daily Comment Rick Bright and the Pandemic Path Not Taken The course of the pandemic in this country could have been different; the United States failed, and it didn’t have to. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Campaign Chronicles Trump’s Angry Campaign in the COVID-19 Era Venom and victimization largely define the President’s public persona, and the same holds true for his online reëlection campaign. By Peter Slevin Our Columnists How Concerning Are the New Title IX Regulations? The regulations, issued by the Trump Administration earlier this month, free schools to do some things that previously were prohibited or understood to be disfavored. By Jeannie Suk Gersen Culture and More Comma Queen The Epic Poem You Need for Quarantine A multimedia forty-day reading of Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” By Mary Norris The Front Row “Fourteen” Is a Vast Vision of a Friendship and Its Fault Lines The film is a drama of the physical and emotional labor that, in composing a life and gracing the lives of others, is itself a virtuous beauty. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts What’s Behind Window No. 1? Enjoy the always fascinating views into your neighbors’ homes! By Olivia de Recat Puzzles & Games Dept. The Weekend Crossword Astronaut George Taylor’s captors, in a 1968 sci-fi epic: four letters. By Patrick Berry This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.