This Week’s Issue: Mourning Under Quarantine

Plus: Trump and the executive class, the enduring romance of the night train, and a history of “Sesame Street.” View in browser | Update your preferences Personal History Reinventing Grief in an Era of Enforced Isolation When my father died, of leukemia, as the coronavirus pandemic accelerated, my family and I became members of a vanguard that we’d never aspired to join. By Lauren Collins American Chronicles How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump To understand the President’s path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country’s executive class. By Evan Osnos Annals of Medicine Why Weren’t We Ready for the Coronavirus? The U.S. has fared worse than other countries not because it lacked information or funding but because it failed to learn the lessons of the last outbreaks. By David Quammen Comment The Rush to Reopen Statewide stay-at-home orders around the country are expiring, and the new measures are a hodgepodge, when what’s required is vigilance and cautious, calibrated plans. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Letter from Europe The Enduring Romance of the Night Train The beguilements of the sleeper car have never seemed sharper than on the eve of a global lockdown. By Anthony Lane A Critic at Large How We Got to Sesame Street The show was created to put kids’ screen time to good use. Half a century later, how is it holding up? By Jill Lepore Books Søren Kierkegaard’s Struggle with Himself For the philosopher, unhappiness became not a condition but a vocation. By Adam Kirsch Newsletters Sign Up for John Cassidy’s Newsletter Get the latest on politics and the economy. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Quarantine Stew Add cilantro to the pot. To you, cilantro tastes like soap. But who cares? It’s the end of the world. Hey, add some real soap, too! By Ethan Kuperberg 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.