Life in a Pandemic

How a Musical Adaptation of Tolstoy Helped Us Get Through the Pandemic

Theodore Wheeler on Dave Molloy's Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

 
By Theodore Wheeler  March 17, 2023
Life in a Pandemic

Chinese writers combat pandemic boredom by remixing Western literary classics.

By Jonny Diamond  April 13, 2022
Life in a Pandemic

A Los Angeles Funeral Director Reflects on the Pandemic

By Kathy Gilsinan  March 25, 2022
Life in a Pandemic

How the Absence of a Funeral Makes Death So Much Harder For the Living

By Olivia Clare Friedman  March 22, 2022
Life in a Pandemic

Mapping the Unknown: Literary Defamiliarization in Our Pandemic Era

By Gabrielle Bellot  March 14, 2022
Life in a Pandemic

10 Books for Being Alone

By Emily Temple  January 26, 2022
Life in a Pandemic

Watching My Neighbor Totoro on the Eve of My Daughters’ Omicron-Surge Return to School

By Anri Wheeler  January 18, 2022
Life in a Pandemic

Do You Remember The Start of Quarantine? Are You Sure?

By Charles Finch  November 18, 2021
Criticism

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  August 26, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

What The (Dixie) Chicks Meant to Me As a Teenager in Namibia

By Rémy Ngamije  August 12, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

By Sara Batkie  August 6, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Compartmentalizing and Coping: Life as an Emergency Doctor During COVID

By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel  August 5, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Leaving the Box: Dispatches from Government Quarantine in South Korea

By Ben Weissenbach  June 25, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

On the Young Doctors Who Came of Age During a Pandemic

By Emma Goldberg  June 11, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Letter to My Child: Cathy Park Hong on the Peculiar Rhythms of Life During Quarantine

By Cathy Park Hong  May 27, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

What Does Untouchable Mean During India’s Covid Crisis?

By Saikat Majumdar  May 21, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

When a Year in the Life of Your Last-Chance Debut Novel Coincides with a Global Pandemic

By Claire Cox  May 21, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Comfort in Quarantine: On Going Deeper Into the Solitude of Books

By Jaime Fuller  April 27, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Rereading The Phantom Tollbooth in This Year of Our Pandemic Doldrums

By Kate Washington  April 21, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

How I Spent My Plague Year Inside a Video Game

By J. Robert Lennon  April 20, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

What the Pandemic Showed Us About a Certain Kind of New Yorker

By Emily Raboteau  April 13, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

The Wild and Elemental City: Finding Life in Pandemic
New York

By Megan Fernandes  March 25, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Imagining Isolation: When the Plots of Your Fiction Spill Into the Real World

By Paul Lynch  March 18, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Locked Down in Denmark, Learning a Language and Finishing a Novel

By Maria Adelmann  February 16, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

The Work of Home: Cleaning, Writing, and Communing with Ghosts

By Laura Cronk  February 5, 2021
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