How COVID Exploded in Hong Kong

Plus: human New Yorkers and their doppelgänger dogs; the case for more CUNY funding; and new fiction by Tessa Hadley. View in browser | Update your preferences Saturday, March 26, 2022 Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » As Told To How COVID Exploded in Hong Kong With startling speed, a success story turned tragic. What went wrong? By Dhruv Khullar Our Local Correspondents The Case for More CUNY Funding As New York lawmakers debate how to divvy up a record budget, calls for reinvestment in public colleges are being heard. By Eric Lach Personal History A Freelancer’s Forty-Three Years in the U.S. Health-Care System Bills that aren’t bills arrive in the mail, and patients need expert help to figure out which diseases they can afford to have. By David Owen Culture and More Sketchbook Human New Yorkers and Their Doppelgänger Dogs Five cartoonists fanned out across the city to find pet owners and their look-alike canines. By The New Yorker Persons of Interest Rose Matafeo Is Reconstructing the Rom-Com The creator and lead of “Starstruck” has crafted a heroine who responds to outlandish tropes in recognizably human ways. By Coralie Kraft Fiction “After the Funeral” “Even though their father had so often been absent, the idea of him had given the girls’ daily life its particular flavor, they realized now.” By Tessa Hadley This Week in Fiction Tessa Hadley on Building a Story from Details The author discusses “After the Funeral,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine. By Deborah Treisman Video Dept. Screening Room An Illustrated Family of Obsessives The animated short “Affairs of the Art”—which explores the nature of compulsion—will compete at the Academy Awards, on March 27th. Film by Joanna Quinn and Les Mills Text by Coralie Kraft Screening Room A Short Film About Illness, Loss, and Karaoke “On My Mind” is one of two films released by The New Yorker in contention at the Academy Awards tomorrow. Film by Martin Strange-Hansen Text by Nathan Burstein Humor and Games Name Drop Play the Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Matt Jackson Daily Shouts A Taxonomy of Red-Carpet Types at the Oscars The Acclaimed Slob, the Actress Turned Business Guru, the Paparazzi Pleaser, and other personalities. By Rachel Merrill Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Plant that produces edible fiddleheads: four letters. By Robyn Weintraub You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for The Daily from The New Yorker. Manage your preferences | View our Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.