This Week’s Issue: The Bushwick House Share Was a Haven—Then COVID-19 Struck

Plus: The new theatrics of remote therapy, the question of reopening schools, and the author Lionel Shriver. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Local Correspondents The Bushwick House Share Was a Haven—Then COVID-19 Struck In a collective, you’re only as safe as your least-careful roommate. By Michael Schulman Coronavirus Chronicles The New Theatrics of Remote Therapy How does treatment change when your patients are on a screen? By Adam Gopnik Letter from San Francisco A Window Onto an American Nightmare As the homelessness crisis and the coronavirus crisis converge, what can we learn from one city’s struggles? By Nathan Heller Profiles Lionel Shriver Is Looking for Trouble The author’s contrarianism has made her famous, but fiction is what she believes changes minds. By Ariel Levy Comment The Complex Question of Reopening Schools The cost of keeping children out of classrooms is unquestionably high, educationally and socially. But reopening is not simply a matter of turning a key. By Amy Davidson Sorkin A Critic at Large How Baseball Players Became Celebrities Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth transformed America’s pastime by becoming a new kind of star. By Louis Menand Books Wartime for Wodehouse The writer paid dearly for his indomitable high spirits in internment camps, though not in the way one might have expected. By Rivka Galchen Pop Music The 1975 Has More to Say “Notes on a Conditional Form,” the band’s new album, serves as a gesture of faith in its fans, who are eager to follow its front man down any path he chooses to take. By Carrie Battan Newsletters Sign Up for the New Yorker Recommends Newsletter Discover what our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Some of Your Third-Grade Friend Alex Quiply’s Best Lies I can’t come to your birthday party because Ernie Mancini, my uncle’s old business partner, is looking for me. No, it’s not because I spend weekends at my dad’s. By Kyle Mooney Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. 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.