A Late-Pandemic Commute, Feeding Hate on YouTube and the Mariachis Unsilenced by Covid: The Week in Narrated Articles
Five articles from around The Times, narrated just for you.
With many empty seats, now every car is a “quiet car.”Credit...Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
May 14, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
This weekend, listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters who wrote the story.
No Scrum for Seats. No Quiet-Car Brawls. Is This Really My Commute?
“After more than a year since my last rush-hour train, I found myself suppressing the muscle memory of contact sports as I laid claim to a throne in a car with just two other passengers,” writes Dan Barry. “The blue seats were the same, the clouded windows, the air-conditioning hush; yet it felt as though I’d boarded a train in another country.”