The Race to Invent the Ultimate Rapid At-Home COVID-19 Test

Plus: Trump’s scare tactics at the R.N.C., college football’s bumpy return, and Charlie Parker’s centenary. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Technology Jonathan Rothberg’s Race to Invent the Ultimate Rapid At-Home COVID-19 Test The inventor and entrepreneur prophesies a future in which self-testing is one more morning ritual, between brushing one’s teeth and putting on a pot of coffee. By Gideon Lewis-Kraus Our Columnists Can Trump’s Scare Tactics Against Biden Work? The President is trying to transform the election from a referendum on his own abject performance to a contest centered on Biden, radical Democrats, and unrest in the streets. By John Cassidy The Sporting Scene College Football’s Messy, Bumpy, Worrisome Return Players are being treated as essential employees, except they aren’t being paid. By Louisa Thomas Politics and More Podcast Trump’s Convention and the Politics of Fear The President’s pitch to voters hasn’t changed since 2016: you’re under dangerous attack, and I’m the only one who can save you. From the Magazine A Critic at Large What Brings Elena Ferrante’s Worlds to Life? For three decades, the stormy relationship between mothers and daughters has animated her fiction. Her new novel is a departure. By Judith Thurman Culture and More Fiction “The Sand Banks, 1861” “We were children yet, but not children for long. Such was the life of a slave.” By David Wright Faladé The Front Row How Charlie Parker Defined the Sound of Bebop Jazz Parker, whose centenary falls on Saturday, lent modernist jazz its definitive sound, tone, legend, influence, and curse. By Richard Brody The New Yorker Documentary The Trauma of California’s Wildfires The documentary “Last Days at Paradise High” follows a group of high-school seniors in the aftermath of the deadliest, and most expensive, fire in the state’s history. By Rachel Riederer Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Phrase that can precede “alligator”: ten letters. By Robyn Weintraub 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.