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  • Bonus Episode: Why COVID-19 Is Killing Black People April 29, 2020

    The pandemic has hit black communities uniquely hard. To understand why, Kai Wright explores how racism shows up in black bodies&mdash;all the way down to the cellular level. (article)

  • A City at the Peak of Crisis April 24, 2020

    April 15th was estimated to be an apex of COVID-19 in New York. New Yorker writers fanned out across the city to document twenty-four hours at the epicenter. (episode)

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    • A City at the Peak of Crisis April 24, 2020

      April 15th was estimated to be an apex of COVID-19 in New York. New Yorker writers fanned out across the city to document twenty-four hours at the epicenter.

  • Rachel Carson Dreams of the Sea April 21, 2020

    Before &ldquo;Silent Spring,&rdquo; Rachel Carson fell in love with the ocean. Her early writings about the sea and its creatures contain the seeds of what made her so widely influential. (article)

  • Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the Pandemic and the Environment April 17, 2020

    Two prominent writers on the environment discuss how the coronavirus pandemic relates to climate change. And a scientist hunts for deadly viruses in their natural habitat. (article)

  • Coronavirus and Climate Change, the Great Crises of Our Time April 17, 2020

    We face two crises of the natural world: a novel virus causing a sudden pandemic, and the ongoing climate emergency. What can one teach us about the other? (episode)

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  • War and Peace and Pandemic, and Roger Angell on Baseball Seasons Past April 14, 2020

    The writer Yiyun Li says there is no better book for a time of uncertainty and fear than Tolstoy&rsquo;s epic. And David Remnick talks with baseball&rsquo;s greatest observer. (article)

  • Amid a Pandemic, Catharsis at Seven O’Clock April 10, 2020

    David Remnick on New York City&rsquo;s daily ritual; and how the pandemic lays bare the inequalities of the American health-care system. (article)

  • Amid a Pandemic, Catharsis at Seven O’Clock April 10, 2020

    David Remnick on a city&rsquo;s daily ritual; how COVID-19 exacerbates the inequities of the health-care system; and Yiyun Li reads &ldquo;War and Peace&rdquo; during quarantine. (episode)

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    • The Pandemic at Seven O’Clock April 10, 2020

      David Remnick on New York City&rsquo;s daily catharsis: the 7 P.M. mass cheer that celebrates all those who are keeping the city alive at their peril.&nbsp;

    • The Injustice of COVID-19 April 10, 2020

      The pandemic lays bare the inequalities of the American health-care system, which creates worse outcomes in many different ways for people who are disadvantaged.

    • War and Peace and Pandemic April 10, 2020

      The writer Yiyun Li says there is no better book for a time of uncertainty and fear than Tolstoy&rsquo;s epic of Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.

    • Roger Angell on Baseball Seasons Past April 10, 2020

      With the coronavirus pandemic delaying the start of the M.L.B. season, David Remnick revisits a conversation with the game&rsquo;s greatest observers: the Hall of Fame inductee Roger Angell.

  • Exploitation in the Amazon April 7, 2020

    Jon Lee Anderson reports on Jair Bolsonaro&rsquo;s push to allow commercial mining on protected lands, and the harm it will do to Brazil&rsquo;s indigenous groups. (article)

  • Why We Underestimated COVID-19, and DJ D-Nice’s Club Quarantine April 3, 2020

    A Nobel Prize-winning expert on human behavior discusses why it&rsquo;s hard to grasp the threat of the coronavirus. And an Instagram Live party attracts hundreds of thousands of attendees. (article)

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