Fighting the Coronavirus, from New York to Utah

Plus: the bombing of Hiroshima, baseball’s bumpy return, and how a cheese goes extinct. View in browser | Update your preferences Medical Dispatch Fighting the Coronavirus, from New York to Utah They volunteered during the New York City surge—then returned home to watch the virus come to them. By Dhruv Khullar The Sporting Scene Baseball’s Bumpy Return and the Gap Between Hope and Hubris The season’s opening weekend felt almost ordinary, which was extraordinary. Then more players started testing positive for the coronavirus. By Louisa Thomas Annals of Gastronomy How a Cheese Goes Extinct When you talk with aficionados, it usually doesn’t take long for the conversation to veer away from curds, whey, and mold, and toward matters of life and death. By Ruby Tandoh Double Take Sunday Reading: Hiroshima This week marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the bombing. From The New Yorker’s archive: John Hersey’s celebrated work, and a selection of related articles. By The New Yorker PAID POST One of the most anticipated books of summer Both an ode to our threatened world and a breathtaking page-turner, Migrations is about a woman chasing the world’s last birds—and her own final chance for redemption. Culture and More Photo Booth Tyler Mitchell’s Redefining Portraits Mitchell’s images introduce a dazzling new narrative about Black beauty and desire, embracing themes of the past and creating fictionalized moments of the imagined future. By Deborah Willis On Television “Bluey,” the Coronavirus, and the Weirdness of Little Kids An Australian TV show captures the idiosyncratic way that kids play. By Lizzie Widdicombe Poems “Limbo” “I think she was right, / part of me did die with her.” By Maxine Scates Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Animal Behaviors I’ve Adopted as My Own Flying into windows, howling at the moon, retracting into a shell, and other unusual doings for an unusual time. By Annah Feinberg Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Crossword: No. 79 Odds of recovering wild sprig soon (9). By Todd Rew 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.