This Week’s Issue: How Iceland Beat the Coronavirus

In the Fiction Issue: Ernest Hemingway, Haruki Murakami, Emma Cline, and a Profile of Maxine Hong Kingston. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Reykjavík How Iceland Beat the Coronavirus The country didn’t just manage to flatten the curve; it virtually eliminated it. By Elizabeth Kolbert The Fiction Issue Profiles Maxine Hong Kingston’s Genre-Defying Life and Work The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea. By Hua Hsu Fiction “Pursuit as Happiness” A previously unpublished story. By Ernest Hemingway Fiction “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey” “Sharing a beer and chatting with a monkey was a pretty unusual experience in and of itself.” By Haruki Murakami Fiction “White Noise” “This time tomorrow, Harvey would know everything. He believed, truly, that he would be exonerated. How could he not be?” By Emma Cline Comment Minneapolis, the Coronavirus, and Trump’s Failure to See a Crisis Coming Like the coronavirus crisis, the riots following George Floyd’s death stemmed not from treacherous unknowns but from the failure to learn from the past. By Jelani Cobb Books Untangling Andy Warhol The Pop iconoclast obsessively documented his life, but he also lied constantly, almost recreationally. By Joan Acocella The Art World Edward Hopper and American Solitude Pandemic or not, the artist’s masterly paintings explore conditions of aloneness as proof of belonging. By Peter Schjeldahl Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Books & Fiction Newsletter Book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature, twice a week. Humor from The New Yorker Sketchpad Block Party While the cat’s away (and the humans, too), the mice will play. By Will McPhail 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 insure 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.