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A series of tender, exacting black-and-white photographs captures the daily walks Julia and Paul Child took almost every day during their years in France.http://nyer.cm/qENmfRE 

Ten days before the 2016 Presidential election, one of Facebook’s early investors sent an e-mail to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg: “I am disappointed. I am embarrassed. I am ashamed.”http://nyer.cm/HOiJ85d 

As the hours spent at home increase, the number of people from high school suddenly reaching out rises exponentially.http://nyer.cm/Cz312HP 

Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched an official campaign encouraging Brazilians to carry on with their normal lives in the face of the coronavirus.http://nyer.cm/g90P57J 

Historians of the future will consult the record of President Trump’s mendacious, misleading press conferences on the coronavirus as an example of a tragic failure of leadership at a critical moment, @sbg1 writes.http://nyer.cm/ljRMTKM 

“Italy has been forced to see itself as a network. If the network is robust, we will bounce back. Otherwise, it will break, and take all of us with it,” Marco Malvaldi writes, of his country’s response to the coronavirus.http://nyer.cm/ZziLkNW 

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.http://nyer.cm/SOMPLxx 

In the absence of leadership from the federal government, doctors are relying on informal networks of friends and former colleagues to get the information and the support they need to treat COVID-19 patients.http://nyer.cm/cp8nvEW 

For thousands of years, a parasite with no name lived happily among horseshoe bats in southern China. Then it found a new species: ours.http://nyer.cm/XpUTdWM 

“Our sense of pride was to come not from material abundance, or even personal accomplishment, but from a series of national abstractions . . . that had nothing to do with the often miserable reality of daily life,” @HalberstadtAlex writes.http://nyer.cm/kIRDSO3 

“When we first heard about this disease, it sounded like it was affecting more of the older population on the other side of the world,” an I.C.U. nurse said. “I think, in the United States, our numbers are a little bit different.”http://nyer.cm/ESGqshV 

The earliest formal quarantines were a response to the Black Death, which, between 1347 and 1351, killed something like a third of Europe.http://nyer.cm/wJmJy9T 

“On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy,” E. B. White wrote, in the summer of 1948. But these queer prizes are now a public-health requirement.http://nyer.cm/z4sJzWP 

Owners of the means of production: eleven letters.http://nyer.cm/ErAGghS 

Physicians on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are operating in an atmosphere of pervasive uncertainty, but on-the-ground reports from other doctors are helping them make sense of the situation.http://nyer.cm/Xvksh49 

In the opera “Sweet Land,” performed in the Los Angeles State Historic Park, myth merged with the grimy routine of the everyday as the border between stage and city disappeared.http://nyer.cm/lMW6Igw 

In this week’s cryptic crossword, 4-Across: Confine group of sheep lacking leader (4).http://nyer.cm/pG6t7Vg 

As a kind of release, a selection of pieces on adventurous spirits from the #NewYorkerArchive.http://nyer.cm/h2YIK3z 

Products to ease the hours (and days and weeks) of self-isolation.http://nyer.cm/yftWaEi 

“My mother made up her mind that autumn, when meat began disappearing from stores.” @HalberstadtAlex on growing up in the Soviet Union, and his mother’s decision to leave.http://nyer.cm/16tlkyE