Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea

Plus: Trump’s blame-Beijing folly, remembering Little Richard, and Mother’s Day amid the pandemic. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth. By Ben Taub Comment The Folly of Trump’s Blame-Beijing Strategy The U.S.-China relationship was already fragile; during the pandemic, the two countries are turning against each other in perilous ways. By Evan Osnos The New Yorker Interview How Chris Hayes Makes Sense of the “World-Historical Cataclysm” The MSNBC host discusses #FireChrisHayes, how the coronavirus has changed the news environment, and more. By Isaac Chotiner Postscript Richard C. Friedman and the Quelling of My Depression In the course of twenty-five years, Dr. F helped me find something to hold on to: not only an imaginable future but also a known past. By Andrew Solomon Postscript Little Richard, the Great Innovator of Rock and Roll The core of Little Richard’s music career was brief—he was a comet, not a planet—but the trail of light that he left behind was, and is, everywhere. By David Remnick PAID POST "A story worthy of Michael Crichton." –Richard Preston A riveting thriller about a global pandemic—"Sweeping, authoritative, and genuinely intelligent…it reads as if it’s been shot out of a cannon" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)—from Pulitzer Prize–winning and best-selling author Lawrence Wright. On Mother’s Day Video Dept. A Mother Turns Her Quarantine Yard Into an Enchanted Garden For the photographer Elisabetta Zavoli and her sons, playing with costumes and lighting during the dark of night became a way to deal with fear during the pandemic. By Tana Wojczuk Letter from the U.K. My Mother Is Under Quarantine, but We’re Still Staying Close In March, on the occasion of Mother’s Day in the U.K., Ed Caesar wrote about what the quarantine meant for his terminally ill mother. By Ed Caesar Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts Imagined Histories of Artists and Their Parents Criticism and attempted reassurance from Pablo Picasso’s mom, Georgia O’Keeffe’s dad, and others. By Nic Koller Puzzles & Games Dept. The Cryptic Crossword: No. 60 Lear clumsily grabbing one character in Shakespeare play (5). By Mike Shenk 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.