My Family Was a COVID Cluster

Benjamin Wallace-Wells reports. Plus: the Delta variant and kids; and a novel set entirely in Slack. View in browser | Update your preferences Thursday, September 23, 2021 Annals of Inquiry My Family Was a COVID Cluster Four vaccinated adults and two unvaccinated children had mild symptoms. Is this what the end of the pandemic looks like? By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Medical Dispatch When a Child Is Hospitalized with COVID The Delta variant created a relative surge in coronavirus cases among kids. But the over-all risk to children remains low. By Rachel Pearson News Desk Why Is R. Kelly Standing Trial Alone? As the R. & B. star’s federal trial in Brooklyn comes to a close, the jury may wonder where the other members of Kelly’s alleged criminal “enterprise” are. By Jim DeRogatis From the Style & Design Issue Onward and Upward with the Arts Richard Neutra’s Architectural Vanishing Act The Austrian-born designer perfected a signature Los Angeles look: houses that erase the boundary between inside and outside. By Alex Ross Culture and More Page-Turner Reading a Novel Set Entirely in Slack In “Several People Are Typing,” Calvin Kasulke takes office agony to its outer limits. By Katy Waldman The New Yorker Documentary Building a New Life in Tijuana’s Booming Deportee Economy In César Martínez Barba’s documentary “Dial Home,” deportees working in call centers struggle to get used to Mexico, while calling into U.S. life every day. Film by César Martínez Barba Text by Yasmine Al-Sayyad New Start Glam-Room Dish with Leslie Jones The comedian, late of “Saturday Night Live,” discusses her new gig hosting “Supermarket Sweep,” and her strategy of taking fashion cues from Monty Hall. By Antonia Hitchens The Front Row “Chameleon Street” Is an Overlooked Masterwork In his 1990 feature début, the director, writer, and actor Wendell B. Harris, Jr., bent a real-life story into wildly inventive and incisive fiction. Yet he has never got to make a second film. By Richard Brody From the Archive Profiles We Are Alive Bruce Springsteen was born on this day in 1949. Revisit David Remnick’s 2012 Profile of the legendary musician. “Performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes,” Springsteen said. “And then you do it again. And then you do it again.” By David Remnick Humor and Games Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz The fewer clues you need, the more points you receive. By Liz Maynes-Aminzade Daily Shouts Refund Request for the Summer of 2021 I regret to inform you that it did not live up to my expectations. By Eddie Small Daily Cartoon Thursday, September 23rd By Jason Adam Katzenstein You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for The Daily from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.