This Week’s Issue: Nine Days in Wuhan, the Ground Zero of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Plus: Inside the Lincoln Project’s war room, the iconoclast remaking LACMA, and how James Beard invented American cooking. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large Nine Days in Wuhan, the Ground Zero of the Coronavirus Pandemic There’s no other country where the pandemic’s effects have been so concentrated in a single city. By Peter Hessler The Political Scene Inside the Lincoln Project’s War Room Progressives are wary of the conservative group hammering the President, but its founders say they’re fighting for all Americans. By Paige Williams Profiles The Iconoclast Remaking Los Angeles’s Most Important Museum Will the new LACMA building be Peter Zumthor’s masterpiece or a fiasco? By Dana Goodyear Letter from Santiago Chile at the Barricades Can a once-in-a-generation political revolution survive the pandemic? By Daniel Alarcón Comment The Coronavirus and the Threat Within the White House The best security system and the most solicitous medical officers in the world could not protect Donald Trump from a danger that he insisted on belittling and ignoring. By David Remnick Books The Day Nuclear War Almost Broke Out In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated. What lessons can we draw from such a close call? By Elizabeth Kolbert Books How James Beard Invented American Cooking The gourmet’s real genius wasn’t in his recipes but in his packaging. He knew how to serve up the authenticity that his audiences craved. By Adam Gopnik The Theatre How Are Audiences Adapting to the Age of Virtual Theatre? With so much time away from in-person performance, we are undergoing a worldwide reconstrual of what it means to be a member of the crowd. By Vinson Cunningham Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Now That It’s Gone Viral I am now aware that what was labelled as footage from a recent protest was in actuality doctored footage from a June, 1989, episode of “Sesame Street.” By Rachel Axler 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.