1. “Don’t touch anything—it’s all full of cholera!” Jenny Kroik explains why having a Soviet mother was useful for the coronavirus crisis.
2. Don’t miss The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, reading and discussing David Foster Wallace’s short story “Good People.”
3. “Right place, right time, and now all of a sudden I’m in England—I’m eating haggis!” Brittany Howard, of Alabama Shakes, talks with Amanda Petrusich about her sudden fame.
4. Emma Allen eulogizes the improv incubator Upright Citizens Brigade, which closed its location in New York: “Watching people fail at it can be viscerally painful. But improv can also be shockingly good, and when it is, it feels like a bit of closeup magic.”
5. “My children are thrilled by ‘Onward,’ but my children, bless them, have terrible taste.” Rumaan Alam finds much not to love about the new Pixar movie.
6. How do crossword-puzzle constructors unwind? They play Fibbage, Formula One, and CodeNames.
7. “Her most striking characters are black women of a creative or intellectual bent.” Vinson Cunningham writes on the revival of the films and plays of Kathleen Collins.
8. “The impossibility of actual sex . . . is a boon for many women who are seeking a more serious relationship.” Naomi Fry explores Zoom dating and other Zoom phenomena.
9. Doreen St. Félix describes how “Mrs. America,”the show about the anti-feminist movement, “feels like the product of a shift in pop feminist consciousness: a post-Clinton critique of the savior model and of pink-pussy-hat resistance.”
10. “Fictional romance is my escapist distractionfrom this tragedy, and it’s stupid, but I feel powerless to stop it.” Lisa Hanawalt, of “Bojack Horseman” fame, wanders way too far into “Pride & Prejudice.”