How the Coronavirus is Rewriting Our Imaginations

Plus: a dispatch from a New York hospital; social-distancing skeptics in Cape Cod; and a new series on the Criterion Channel. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Inquiry The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations The spring of 2020 is suggestive of how much, and how quickly, we can change as a civilization. By Kim Stanley Robinson Editors’ Picks Letter from Trump’s Washington President Trump and the 1917 Pandemic That Wasn’t The U.S. leader, famously illiterate about history, eagerly promotes his place in it. By Susan B. Glasser Medical Dispatch The Essential Workers Filling New York’s Coronavirus Wards Social distancing has been working—except for those who can’t keep their distance. By Dhruv Khullar Dispatch The Loneliness of a Social-Distancing Skeptic on Cape Cod Unlike protests against coronavirus precautions in the Midwest and South, the small insurrection here appears to be homegrown. By Masha Gessen Personal History The False Positives, False Negatives, and Positive Negatives of the Coronavirus Can you think of any other illness for which a positive result might be eagerly anticipated? By Geoff Dyer PAID POST They said she was a woman of no importance—they were wrong. The remarkable true story of Virginia Hall: the American spy who helped win Word War II. NPR calls A Woman of No Importance “compelling ... a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people—and a little resistance.” Now a New York Times bestseller. Culture and More Tables for Two The Chefs Behind Contra and Wildair Reincarnate Jeremiah Stone and Fabián von Hauske Valtierra created Contrair, with rustic dishes packaged to go. By Helen Rosner The Front Row An Extraordinary Series on Women Filmmakers Comes to the Criterion Channel The documentaries open portals to another dimension in the history—and, for that matter, the future—of cinema. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts How Are You Doing with All of This? I’m doing “bought the last oversized container of marshmallow spread left at the grocery store.” By Jessica Delfino and Sara Lautman Daily Cartoon Friday, May 1st By Avi Steinberg 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.