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Poetry by Hala Alyan: “Can you diagnose fear?”

From Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln, revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives on the Civil War President, Adam Gopnik writes. Is there a version that’s true to Lincoln’s time and attuned to ours?

Fiction by Lorrie Moore: “He was clearly hallucinating, agitated, imagining he was a prisoner of war; that was what it must have felt like to him—the cruel isolation, the medicine, the lights, the strange machines all around.”

Letters respond to Rebecca Mead’s article about the therapeutic power of gardening and Jennifer Gonnerman’s profile of a N.Y.C. bus driver navigating the coronavirus.

Françoise Mouly talks to the artist Pascal Campion about his cover “Open Offices,” which appears in the September 28, 2020, issue of The New Yorker.

Sarah Larson on the Australian star of HBO Max’s “Raised by Wolves,” who has played a Viking slaughterer-hero and a pickle salesman opposite Greta Gerwig, feeds emus and covets kangaroos.

As COVID keeps many schools closed, a growing number of “roadschoolers” across America do science experiments and algebra in the family R.V., Zach Helfand writes.

Jane Mayer on Robert F. Kennedy’s grandson Max, who volunteered with Jared Kushner’s COVID-19 task force and likened the Trump Administration’s pandemic response to “a family office meets organized crime, melded with ‘Lord of the Flies.’ ”

Poetry by Simon Armitage: “Did any of you lot / ever actually truly / try burning a book?”

Deborah Treisman interviews the author Lorrie Moore about “Face Time,” her story from the September 28, 2020, issue of The New Yorker.

A Comic Strip by Emily Flake: Maybe all comfort is an illusion.

Like HBO’s “Watchmen,” this comic adaptation makes a point of deconstructing its own genre, but without a maverick savior. The show is outlandish, pessimistic, and brutally funny, Doreen St. Félix writes.

Shouts & Murmurs by Noah Baumbach: “What operating system are you working on? Ask the gnome.”

New cartoons from the magazine.

In a new video series, the members of the orchestra play together for the first time since lockdown began, Alex Ross writes.

Shvitzing in a tallis and a leopard-print mask, Diana Fersko does her Shabbat Walk, greeting the faithful on stoops and in lobbies, Micah Hauser writes.

“The Erratics,” “Deep Delta Justice,” “A Country for Dying,” and “Owed.”

Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth, Raffi Khatchadourian writes. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?

The aftermath of November’s vote has the potential to make 2000 look like a mere skirmish, Jeffrey Toobin writes.

Around the world, people who accidentally spread the coronavirus must face both a dangerous illness and an onslaught of online condemnation, D. T. Max writes.

Forget artificial sweeteners. Researchers are now developing new forms of real sugar, to deliver sweetness with fewer calories. But tricking our biology is no easy feat, Nicola Twilley writes.

1. Donald Trump is catching Sleepy Joe napping in his election surge  Telegraph.co.uk
2. Joe Biden makes ANOTHER gaffe by saying that 200 million Americans have died of COVID-19  Daily Mail
3. Presidential race narrows to two points in Texas and Florida  The Independent
4. Newt Gingrich: Biden's coronavirus lies – Don't fall for them. Here are the facts  Fox News
5. US election odds 2020: Who will be next president – Trump vs Biden?  Telegraph.co.uk
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN - 1999: John Stockton #12 of the Utah Jazz handles the ball against the Minnesota Timberwolves during a game in 1999 at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  | Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images

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The Tax Divide: How flaws in Cook County property tax assessments harmed the poor and helped the rich

The Cook County Jail is set to make history by operating four general election polling places on its campus for pretrial detainees, but COVID-19 has complicated the efforts.