Schism nation: a journey through a pre-election US

In this Covid travelogue, ranging from the Black Lives Matter murals of Brooklyn to the anti-maskers of Kentucky, Johanna Gohmann takes a snapshot of life in the US one week before the most momentous presidential election in modern history

Trump signs on Arizona State Route 95 between Needles, California, and Laughlin, Nevada

My husband and I were in Indiana, lying side by side, though several feet apart. He sprawled sleepily in what used to be my mother’s bed, while I was perched in my father’s old bed. Just as when I was a child, the two queen beds were pushed together.

I whispered to David to turn up the volume on the set of headphones we were sharing, as I was having trouble hearing what naked Connell ...