11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

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Welcome to the weekend, though it may not feel much different than the week these days. Many of us are home, trying to be teachers for our kids or worrying about our parents. Others have to be at work — doctors, nurses, grocery store employees, firefighters, paramedics, police officers. If you are anxious, please remember that you’re not alone, and that there are only 24 hours in a day. You can only do what you can do — some days you’ll do more, some days less. No matter how much you do or don’t get done, take care of your self. Here’s some amazing journalism you may have missed this week.

Test kits and protective gear have been in short supply, doctors are falling sick, and every day gets more difficult. But the staff keeps showing up.

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Their family’s world became one of isolation, round-the-clock care, panic and uncertainty — even as society carried on around them with all-too-few changes.

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At 28, I thought my life was pretty settled. Nope.

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The United States was supposed to have escaped the devastation of a drug that caused birth defects in 10,000 babies overseas. Newly unearthed documents, and the survivors, tell the almost forgotten story of its toll in America.

[Also read: “The Story of Thalidomide in the U.S., Told Through Documents” and “Pursuing an Untold Story of Thalidomide.”]

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[Also read: “National Cathedral, Nasdaq, Businesses and Unions Locate Troves of N95 Mask.”]

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A conversation with the Princeton scholar Moulie Vidas on mortality and the embrace of life in Judaism.

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Maybe they’re looking for a glimpse of the apocalypse.

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Since opening day was closed, Dan Barry dreamed up his own amazing game.

[Also read: “A Brooklyn Dodgers Fan Who Never Gave Up on Ebbets Field.”]

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As chief executives, like Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, hunker down during the pandemic, home offices have become corporate headquarters.

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Allen’s “Apropos of Nothing,” recently released after being canceled by its original publisher, covers his childhood in Brooklyn, his career and the abuse allegations against him.

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The photographs here all tell a similar story: a temple in Indonesia; Haneda Airport in Tokyo; the Americana Diner in New Jersey. Emptiness proliferates like the virus.