Can a vaccine be distributed fairly? What will be the impact if a huge number of people remain opposed to taking it? At a pivotal moment in battling the coronavirus, the New Yorker staff writer Atul Gawande—recently appointed to President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force—walks David Remnick through some of the challenges of the next six months. Plus, the director Steve McQueen discusses his film series “Small Axe,” set in London’s West Indian community; and Larissa MacFarquhar looks at what happens to families in Haredi Jewish communities when one parent leaves the faith.
Atul Gawande on Taming the Coronavirus
The staff writer on some of the challenges to vaccination.
Steve McQueen Comes Home
The director of “Twelve Years a Slave” makes a series of films that draw upon his own history, in West Indian London.
Navigating Divorce Within Religious Communities
The staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar on what happens to families in Haredi Jewish communities when one parent leaves the faith.
