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How Translating a Novel About Emily Dickinson Got Rhonda Mullins Through the Pandemic

How Translating a Novel About Emily Dickinson Got Rhonda Mullins Through the Pandemic

On Dominique Fortier's “Pale Shadows,” the Frictionlessness of Death, and More

By Rhonda Mullins | March 18, 2024

Inside the Emergency Room on the Eve of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Inside the Emergency Room on the Eve of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Farzon A. Nahvi on the Early Days of a Public Health Disaster in the Making

By Farzon A. Nahvi | February 27, 2023

How Virologists in China Worked to Warn the World About COVID-19

How Virologists in China Worked to Warn the World About COVID-19

David Quammen on the Origins of the Coronavirus Pandemic

By David Quammen | October 4, 2022

What Has COVID Done to Our Romantic Relationships?

What Has COVID Done to Our Romantic Relationships?

Laura Kipnis on Isolation, Intimacy, and Knowing One’s Partner

By Laura Kipnis | February 8, 2022

Mrs Dalloway During an Endless Pandemic"> The Work of Living Goes On: Rereading <em

The Work of Living Goes On: Rereading <em

Mrs Dalloway During an Endless Pandemic">

Mrs Dalloway During an Endless Pandemic">The Work of Living Goes On: Rereading Mrs Dalloway During an Endless Pandemic

Colin Dickey Finds Deeper Dystopian Meaning in Virginia Woolf’s Classic

By Colin Dickey | December 6, 2021

Pamela Paul on the Internet As Both Lifeline and Reflection of What We’ve Lost

Pamela Paul on the Internet As Both Lifeline and Reflection of What We’ve Lost

“It has opened up the world to us, but it has also made that world feel small.”

By Pamela Paul | October 29, 2021

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Haruki Murakami has criticized the Japanese prime minister over his pandemic optimism.

By Emily Temple | August 30, 2021

How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?

By Benjamin Bratton | August 2, 2021

Writing a Fictionalized Apocalypse Does Not Prepare You For a Real One

By Geoff Rodkey | July 23, 2021

The Hard Intimacies of COVID-19: Documenting a Pandemic Year

The Hard Intimacies of COVID-19: Documenting a Pandemic Year

The Longest Year: 2020+">Isadora Kosofsky and Suzanne Koven, for The Longest Year: 2020+

By Isadora Kosofsky and Suzanne Koven | July 1, 2021

How the Xenophobic Legacy of Ebola Shaped America’s Fear and Denial of COVID-19

How the Xenophobic Legacy of Ebola Shaped America’s Fear and Denial of COVID-19

Fantasies Like The Hot Zone ">Kari Nixon on the Harmful Effects of American Disease
Fantasies Like The Hot Zone

By Kari Nixon | June 14, 2021

Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

An Armchair Catastrophist Predicts a Pandemic

By Jim Shepard | May 19, 2021

Poetic Letters Across a Pandemic Distance

Poetic Letters Across a Pandemic Distance

From Emma Kushnirsky and Robin Messing of Girls Write Now

By Emma Kushnirsky and Robin Messing | May 17, 2021

On Rediscovering Spontaneous Touch Through Writing

On Rediscovering Spontaneous Touch Through Writing

Laura Hankin Struggles with the Absence of Intimacy

By Laura Hankin | April 29, 2021

The first wave of pandemic novels is beginning in earnest, with Gary Shteyngart at the helm.

The first wave of pandemic novels is beginning in earnest, with Gary Shteyngart at the helm.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

Documenting My Grief: Living on Instagram in the Aftermath of COVID-19

Documenting My Grief: Living on Instagram in the Aftermath of COVID-19

The Longest Year: 2020+: Marvin Heiferman on the Sudden Loss of His Husband, Maurice Berger">The Longest Year: 2020+: Marvin Heiferman on the Sudden Loss of His Husband, Maurice Berger

By Marvin Heiferman | March 19, 2021

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