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As the coronavirus outbreak sweeps through New York City, the Korean-American writer Ed Park observes a rising tide… https://t.co/GqTbtUBpZp"I felt dark, lonely, a little scared, and I built a city—based on New York—out of that feeling," the artist Pascal… https://t.co/c0Xe55CnJaIn a time of social distancing, our writers suggest a book on Winston Churchill that feels surprisingly appropriate… https://t.co/i9kxbM6pknResearchers are hoping to develop a “penicillin for viruses”—a next-generation antiviral that will prepare us to co… https://t.co/BCifPctpQIIn an excerpt from his new book, @ bill_buford writes about his time as an apprentice in a boulangerie in Lyon. https://t.co/2aD6CWYsegAriel Levy investigates the case of Renée Bach, the director of a controversial missionary health facility in Ugand… https://t.co/OwGBDlZerFIn a series of dispatches, writers such as Edwidge Danticat, @Shteyngart, @brywashing, Weike Wang,… https://t.co/eFhotsrbKq.@SilverJacket reports on treatments for viral diseases such as COVID-19 and interviews the scientists who are sear… https://t.co/9d17WY4x8kInside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: https://t.co/FdxtxgxAcM https://t.co/m1QEx9O6yKIllustrators create postcards depicting isolation around the world—a beach in Tel Aviv, Israel; the inside of a cha… https://t.co/UpuAwnE2EWThe idea that the plague woke Isaac Newton’s brilliance is both wrong and misleading as a measure of how well we ap… https://t.co/zGxGooVnqUThe tigers speak out. https://t.co/w5v1nx7QjiHow the character actor Leslie Jordan went from 100,000 Instagram followers, to 250,000, to 1.5 million in one mont… https://t.co/OdDlqi98Te"I felt dark, lonely, a little scared, and I built a city—based on New York—out of that feeling," the artist Pascal… https://t.co/qAimuXzza6Greta Thunberg’s missives of alarm—“I want you to panic” is a frequent refrain in her speeches—are strange to read… https://t.co/rp2GetQUWPRenée Bach, a home­schooled missionary, moved to Uganda and founded Serving His Children to help malnourished child… https://t.co/UIVBbezuwUThe Borowitz Report: “I’ve been talking about hydroxychloroquine so much that a lot of people think I invented it,”… https://t.co/6TMWHgbqp4The word “quarantine” comes from the Italian quaranta, meaning “forty.” The period was chosen not for medical reaso… https://t.co/Fbx6WrOKfuTo escape the bubonic plague, Isaac Newton left London for the near total solitude of his family farm, where he inv… https://t.co/5o03c42CvA“I am touched, and sometimes rattled, by the children’s innate faith in us,” Karen Russell writes. “In recent weeks… https://t.co/ri5NftzYvqIn this week’s issue, a close look at the inner workings of a virus particle, the nature of viral pandemics, and th… https://t.co/8DjaRIPnV0This week’s cover, "Lifeline," by Pascal Campion: https://t.co/HpeL505ge1 https://t.co/4srAQKR2zI“The microwave,” declared the celebrity chef David Chang, of Momofuku, “is a machine from the future here in presen… https://t.co/8sLLA1Npz6To encounter, as a child, Tomie dePaola’s visual and writerly voice—clear-eyed, sympathetic, gently sly—felt like c… https://t.co/edtF9ts64UCartoonist Chast: three letters. https://t.co/7Kg0YaAhHf“Stories for me begin with those two questions, which sound so banal but are, in fact, the richest and most mysteri… https://t.co/K7zKpzDUCO.@tnyfrontrow recommends 40 movies you can stream on Netflix now. https://t.co/0iMpRImVnYPlatonic-erotic bonds of close friendship give the young Swiss photographer Senta Simond’s images their glow. https://t.co/AnYSV8FchR“We can learn from the experiences of our colleagues across the planet,” @Atul_Gawande writes, of Singapore’s and H… https://t.co/hzgLolBEU8Not long before her fifteen-year college reunion, the photographer Josephine Sittenfeld re-created old photographs… https://t.co/5Juhcz7TU9A series of tender, exacting black-and-white photographs captures the daily walks Julia and Paul Child took almost… https://t.co/Kgtb72DuIXTen days before the 2016 Presidential election, one of Facebook’s early investors sent an e-mail to Mark Zuckerberg… https://t.co/r2YMWE5i85As the hours spent at home increase, the number of people from high school suddenly reaching out rises exponentiall… https://t.co/WwNxyKHqjSBrazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched an official campaign encouraging Brazilians to carry on with their… https://t.co/PvypbwYkiZHistorians of the future will consult the record of President Trump’s mendacious, misleading press conferences on t… https://t.co/16aRzhjdUb“Italy has been forced to see itself as a network. 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