| | | | |  Photography by Dina Litovsky In our bumptious democracy, everyone seems to have their own timeline as to when the coronavirus pandemic is “over.” For parents of young kids, the end might coincide with a vaccine shot in the arm of their child. Last Tuesday, the C.D.C. authorized the Pfizer vaccine for children between the ages of five and eleven. The news was a long-awaited relief for some, but others saw it as yet another unwelcome government intrusion. God bless America! The writer Helen Rosner and the photographer Dina Litovsky visited some of the receptive places: the pop-up vaccine sites established in New York City public schools. The children who lined up for a scary pinprick had a way of clarifying the situation, in the way that kid logic often can. “Are you happy that you got your shot?” Rosner asks a first grader. “Yes,” she replies. “And I just feel, like, O.K., now I’m waiting for the next one, so I can go see my cousins on Christmas.” Click through for interviews and photographs of a historic day. —Michael Agger, culture editor, newyorker.com For more from our Photo Dept., revisit the California photographer Kali’s shimmering images, Jill Freedman’s photographs of New York City cops, and Jocelyn Lee’s older women in the nude. | | | | From the News Desk | Daily Comment Trust Is Hard to Find at the U.N. Climate Summit in GlasgowYoung activists are right to doubt the pledges of governments, financial firms, and the fossil-fuel industry. By Bill McKibben | | Office Space The Question We’ve Stopped Asking About Teen-Agers and Social MediaShould they be using these services at all? By Cal Newport | | Field Trip George Floyd CurriculumGrade schoolers from P.S. 213, in East New York, took a school bus with Terrence Floyd, George’s brother, to participate in his new lesson plan. By Zach Helfand | | A Reporter at Large From June: Kyle Rittenhouse, American VigilanteRittenhouse has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges for killing two men at a racial-justice protest in Kenosha last summer. In his testimony today, the eighteen-year-old said that he acted in self-defense. By Paige Williams | | | | | Editor’s Pick |  Annals of Medicine A Doctor, a Patient, and Their PoetryIn some ways, writing was the best treatment. By Ofole Mgbako | | | | | Culture Dept. | - Leslie Jamison profiles the writer Dodie Bellamy in this week’s magazine. “She occupies the cult-icon sweet spot: worshipped in certain literary circles and virtually unknown beyond them,” Jamison writes. “Bellamy’s œuvre is the literary equivalent of a messy apartment: full of hard-ons, affairs, cat piss, genital infections, and vibrators drying on the dish rack.”
- In the drama “Passing,” “ambient racism—spoken and unspoken, acted upon or merely built into the ordinary habits of society—is the basic framework,” Richard Brody writes. The film, set in nineteen-twenties Harlem, comes to Netflix on Wednesday, and explores the relationship between two light-skinned Black women, one entrenched in Black society, and the other who intentionally passes for white.
| | | | Fun & Games Dept. |  Crossword A Moderately Challenging Puzzle Like the abyssopelagic zone: seven letters. By Aimee Lucido |  Daily Cartoon Wednesday, November 10th By Kim Warp | |  Daily Shouts The Aging Anarchist’s Cookbook Sections on making drugs and explosives have been removed. Can you imagine having the energy to do anything like that? By Reuven Perlman |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz The fewer clues you need, the more points you receive. By Liz Maynes-Aminzade | | | | | | P.S. Happy birthday to Neil Gaiman. In 2010, Dana Goodyear profiled the fantasy and science-fiction author, who wrote “Coraline,” and described his fanatical following: “Jon Levin, Gaiman’s film agent, says he recognized his client’s popularity only when he took him to a meeting at Warner Bros. and all the secretaries got up from their desks to ask for autographs. Someone said, ‘That never happens when Tom Cruise is here.’ ” | | | | Today’s newsletter was written by Jessie Li. | | | | | | | |
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