Life in a Pandemic

Here’s how to support worker relief funds for booksellers trying to survive coronavirus closures.

 
By Corinne Segal  March 23, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

“March the Ninth Twenty Twenty”

By Mariangela Gualtieri  March 23, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Actors are reading sonnets to us online to soothe our isolation anxieties.

By Emily Temple  March 20, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

10 superb social distancers from literature.

By Emily Temple  March 20, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Our Personalized Quarantine Book Recommendations

By Emily Temple  March 20, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Bookselling at the End of the World

By Stephen Sparks  March 20, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Italy’s Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

By Alessio Perrone  March 19, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Bookshop.org to share 30 percent of each purchase with bookstores impacted by coronavirus shutdowns.

By Corinne Segal  March 18, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

On the Near Impossibility of Planning for a Viral Pandemic

By Gerald Posner  March 18, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Letter From Rome: Dear Americans, Please Stay Inside

By Igiaba Scego  March 18, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Celebrities are posting videos of themselves reading children’s stories for quarantined kids.

By Corinne Segal  March 17, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Haven’t read War and Peace? Now’s the time to join Yiyun Li’s free virtual book club.

By Emily Temple  March 17, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

What China’s Literary Community is Reading During the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Na Zhong  March 17, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Here is a (growing) list of resources for gig workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

By Corinne Segal  March 16, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

How you can support bookstores during the coronavirus pandemic.

By Jonny Diamond  March 16, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Can’t decide what to read next? Tell us your favorite books and we’ll recommend one just for you.

By Emily Temple  March 16, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Editor’s Note: Literary Community in a Time of Global Pandemic

By Jonny Diamond  March 16, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?

By Ysabelle Cheung  March 16, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Stay Home, They Told Us… Diary of an Italian Editor

By Sara Reggiani  March 16, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Lots of people are looking up “pandemic” and “quarantine” and “Kafkaesque” in the dictionary.

By Emily Temple  March 13, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague

By Liesl Schillinger  March 13, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Update: NYC public libraries are suspending all programs and closing to the public through March.

By Emily Temple  March 12, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Coronavirus Has Ground Chinese Publishing to a Halt

By Na Zhong  March 12, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

By Yan Lianke  March 11, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Sales of plague-themed literature on the rise in Italy. Is America next?

By Jonny Diamond  March 4, 2020
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