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OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS 32 April 15, 2020 Twenty-four hours in New York’s struggle. PORTFOLIO Karen Cunningham 48 A City Nurse with David Remnick Faces of the I.C.U. FICTION Allan Gurganus 62 “The Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor” THE CRITICS A CRITIC AT LARGE The New Yorker Today app Jill Lepore 70 Why the Kent State shootings still matter. is the best way to stay on top of BOOKS news and culture every day, as Anthony Gottlieb 76 The remarkable mind of Frank Ramsey. well as the magazine each week. 79 Briefly Noted Get a daily blend of reporting, ON TELEVISION commentary, humor, and cartoons Doreen St. Félix 80 “#blackAF.” from the Web site, and browse magazine issues back to 2008. MUSICAL EVENTS Alex Ross 82 Streaming Víkingur Ólafsson and Liza Lim. newyorker.com/go/today POEMS Eavan Boland 28 “Eviction” Ada Limón 67 “The End of Poetry” COVER Chris Ware “Still Life” DRAWINGS Liza Donnelly, Robert Leighton, Amy Hwang, Available on iPad and iPhone Roz Chast, Mick Stevens, Liana Finck, Julia Suits, Frank Cotham, Lars Kenseth, Peter Steiner, Karl Stevens, Edward Steed, Elisabeth McNair, Ali Solomon SPOTS Pablo Amargo THE NEW YORKER, MAY 4, 2020 1 PROMOTION CONTRIBUTORS Charles Duhigg (“The Pandemic Pro- Karen Cunningham (Portfolio, p. 88), tocol,” p. 16), the author of “The Power a photographer and a printmaker, is a of Habit” and “Smarter Faster Better,” nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital. was a member of the Times team that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for explan- Allan Gurganus (Fiction, p. 62) is the atory reporting. author of “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” and “Local Souls.” Doreen St. Félix (On Television, p. 80), He will publish “The Uncollected a staff writer since 2017, is The New Stories of Allan Gurganus” next year. Yorker’s television critic. Ada Limón (Poem, p. 67), a current Gug- Siddhartha Mukherjee (“After the Storm,” genheim Fellow, is the author of five p. 28) won a Pulitzer Prize for his book poetry collections, including “The “The Emperor of All Maladies.” His Carrying,” which won the National most recent book is “The Gene.” Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Jill Lepore (A Critic at Large, p. 70) is Nick Hornby (Shouts & Murmurs, p. 23) a professor of history at Harvard and has written numerous books, including the host of the podcast “The Last “High Fidelity,” “About a Boy,” and Archive.” Her fourteenth book, “If “Fever Pitch.” His next novel, “Just Like Then,” will be published in September. You,” will come out later this year. Chris Ware (Cover) has contributed Micah Hauser (The Talk of the Town, comic strips and covers since 1999. This p. 15) is a member of the magazine’s is his twenty-seventh cover. editorial staff. Eavan Boland (Poem, p. 28) will publish Anthony Gottlieb (Books, p. 76) is the a new poetry collection, “The Histori- author of, most recently, “The Dream ans,” in the fall. of Enlightenment.” THIS WEEK ON NEWYORKER.COM OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS THE NEW YORKER INTERVIEW Jonathan Blitzer on how New York Amanda Petrusich talks to Tori Amos City funeral-home workers are about politics, life on the road, and responding to the coronavirus crisis. the songwriter’s new memoir. Download the New Yorker Today app for the latest news, commentary, criticism, and humor, plus this week’s magazine and all issues back to 2008. YORKER; THE NEW SINNA NASSERI FOR LEFT: YORKER THE NEW FOR IVORY DEUN RIGHT: THE NEW YORKER, MAY 4, 2020 THE MAIL PUZZLES & GAMES DEPT. A HIGHER LOVE bereft at his loss, you have enlarged our comprehension of what is happening Casey Cep’s sophisticated analysis of behind the numbers. Truly, the only that quintessential New Yorker Dorothy thing spreading more rapidly than the Day made me forget the virus, at least virus is grief. for a few minutes, and look forward to Elizabeth M. Swift The New Yorker reading John Loughery and Blythe Ran­ Sylva, N.C. dolph’s biography of the would­be saint 1 Crossword: (Books, April 13th). But it also made me MISSION IN UGANDA want to put in a good word for Forster Introducing Batterham, who is sometimes miscon­ We, as the No White Saviors team, are strued as the villain of Day’s story. The writing in response to Ariel Levy’s arti­ Partner Mode usual understanding is that Batterham cle about Renée Bach, whose organiza­ was an atheist cad who “did not believe tion operated a dangerous, unregistered in marriage,” as Cep notes. But Robert medical clinic in Jinja, Uganda (“The Ellsberg, in his collection of Day’s let­ Mission,” April 13th). A core tenet of ters, reveals that the emotional relation­ our work is holding missionary and de­ ship between the two persisted for years. velopment organizations, such as the Why didn’t Batterham marry Day, de­ one run by Bach, accountable for their spite her entreaties? Surely their uncon­ unethical actions in local communities. ventionality as a couple was a signifi­ It is unfortunate that The New Yorker cant roadblock, as were their religious seems to feel that Bach, who is cur­ disagreements. (Batterham’s relatives, rently under investigation for her role whom I know through my academic in the deaths of multiple children, is endeavors, have told me that he lamented, more worthy of a sympathetic profile wryly, that Day “left me for another than those Ugandans whose lives were man—God.”) Perhaps a third factor irreversibly affected by her choices. The was that Day had already been married article represents a missed opportunity once, to Berkeley Tobey, whom she wed for the magazine to show how the hor­ You can now solve shortly after her abortion, and whom rific actions of Bach, like those of oth­ she abandoned a year later, in Europe. ers who abuse their power and privi­ our online crossword Nevertheless, the letters between Day lege, harmed the very people she was puzzles with a friend and Batterham show that they remained claiming to help. connected, if at a distance, for the rest We hope to make it clear that this who’s across the room of their lives. case should never be boiled down to a or halfway around Jack Selzer personal issue between N.W.S. and the world. 1State College, Penn. Bach. Our organization was formed out of a collective desire to put justice first THE DIMENSIONS OF GRIEF and to insure that human rights are up­ Start playing at held. Levy’s piece seems to privilege Thank you for publishing Jonathan Bach’s feelings over the lives of Ugan­ newyorker.com/crossword Blitzer’s beautiful eulogy for Juan Sana­ dans. This is a disservice not only to bria, a New York City doorman who your readers but to those whose voices passed away from COVID­19 (Postscript, are so often ignored. April 20th). During this time of con­ Alaso Olivia Patience, Kelsey Nielsen, stant statistical updates about numbers and Lubega Wendy of cases, I.C.U. admissions, available Kampala, Uganda ventilators, and deaths owing to the pandemic, it is easy to lose sight of the • magnitude of the human tragedy. By Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, telling the story of one man who be­ address, and daytime phone number via e-mail to [email protected]. Letters may be edited came ill, and of the people—his family, for length and clarity, and may be published in his colleagues, and the residents of the any medium. We regret that owing to the volume building where he worked—who are of correspondence we cannot reply to every letter. THE NEW YORKER, MAY 4, 2020 3 In an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, New York City museums, galleries, theatres, music venues, and cinemas have closed. Here’s a selection of culture to be found online and streaming. APRIL 29 – M AY 5, 2020 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN The century-old West Village piano bar Marie’s Crisis has shut its doors amid the pandemic, but the Broadway sing-along continues every night via Facebook Live. The bar’s crooning waitstaff is there, too. “It’s been an amazing experience to create this online community,” Yvette Monique Clark (above), who has worked at Marie’s Crisis for five years, says. (Her signature number: “When You’re Good to Mama,” from “Chicago.”) Catch her on Sundays and Thursdays, belting from her Flatbush apartment. PHOTOGRAPH BY RYAN DUFFIN 1 production of the work, starring Edward Wat- frogs in Hilo, Hawaii; people in Rome singing DANCE son—the company’s resident antihero—and “Volare” during self-quarantine.