This Week’s Issue: How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump’s Fate

Plus: how China controlled the coronavirus; tracking the elusive musk ox; and Zadie Smith on the artist Toyin Ojih Odutola. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Wisconsin How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump’s Fate As rural Wisconsin’s fortunes have declined, its political importance has grown. By Dan Kaufman A Reporter at Large How China Controlled the Coronavirus And what the U.S. could learn from the country’s successful campaign to halt the outbreak. By Peter Hessler Personal History The Musk Ox and Me How a summer spent tracking elusive animals in Alaska led to a lifetime on the road. By Jon Lee Anderson Annals of Art Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Visions of Power In their depictions of domination, the artist’s works, full of world-building and philosophy, do more than flip the script. By Zadie Smith Comment The Woeful Inadequacy of School-Reopening Plans We wasted the summer, while President Trump sowed distrust and promoted heedlessness. What’s left now is to see what can be salvaged. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Books Raven Leilani’s Début Novel Deconstructs Domesticity The story of an extramarital affair undergoes a stealthy reversal when the homewrecker becomes part of the family. By Alexandra Schwartz Books Isabel Wilkerson’s World-Historical Theory of Race and Caste By comparing white supremacy in the U.S. to the caste system in India, her new book at once illuminates and collapses a complex history. By Sunil Khilnani Musical Events Francis Poulenc’s Drunken Angels In the composer’s masterly songs, the solemn and the sensual collide. By Alex Ross 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 Shouts & Murmurs With a Kiss I Die “O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek! (Pause) Not literally.” By Anthony Lane 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.