Biden’s Case to Latino Voters Comes Late. Will They Listen?

Plus: new ways to party during the pandemic; “The Normalcy Election”; and Hervé Guibert’s defiant fiction. View in browser | Update your preferences News Desk Biden’s Case to Latino Voters Comes Late. Will They Listen? Polls show that the former Vice-President is failing to sway a group of voters he needs in order to win the 2020 election. By Stephania Taladrid Editors’ Picks Culture Desk Zoom Fatigue and the New Ways to Party Virtual-reality coffee shops and party-simulation apps are aiming to help you gossip and mingle more realistically online. By Anna Russell American Chronicles How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar? By Thomas Mallon The New Yorker Documentary A Life-Saving Race Against Time and Traffic, in “Blood Rider” In Nigeria, motorcyclists deliver blood to patients, including to those who have just given birth. By Anakwa Dwamena PAID POST The #1 Worldwide Bestseller, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes “Collins once again proves that she is a master of building a fascinating world” (The Associated Press) in this New York Times bestselling prequel to the Hunger Games trilogy. Books When a Virus Becomes a Muse Hervé Guibert wrote about the ravaging of AIDS in controversial, self-exposing, always defiant fiction. A revival of his work places it within the canonical literature of illness. By Julian Lucas Culture and More Pop Music Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Music for a Future That Never Came Rediscovering an outsider artist’s enchanted take on electronic music. By Hua Hsu On Television The Thrills and Horrors of HBO’s “Class Action Park” The documentary’s directors have found a colorful collection of interviewees who remember a notoriously hazardous New Jersey water park, but the film’s ultimate takeaway is ambivalence. By Rachel Syme Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts The College Dean’s Message About Last Night’s Heavy-Breathing Party Suffice it to say that any drinking game which involves an entire keg of beer and thirty students but somehow only one red Solo cup is a severe safety violation. By Nate Dern Daily Cartoon Thursday, September 17th By Tim Hamilton 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.