Our Pandemic Summer
“The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself.”
Family Man
“I never knew my uncle. But it’s the absence of inquiry that feels most disquieting.”
The New York You Once Knew Is Gone. The One You Loved Remains.
In this pandemic-inspired variation on the Goodbye to All That essay, Glynnis MacNicol writes about what it’s like to have stayed in the current ghost town version of New York City when so many other New Yorkers have departed for greener pastures, and considers the city’s, and city-dwellers’ history of resilience through hard times.
The Shark and the Shrimpers
“A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?”
The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020
As Coronavirus leads to a rise in racism, Cathy Park Hong, author of the essay collection, “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning,” reviews the history of slurs and hate crimes against Asians in America, and catalogues the growing number of them here and around the world — including her own experience of being called a “Chinese bitch” by a Latino delivery man.
“Everyone Is So Afraid”: COVID-19’s Impact on the American Restaurant Industry
“For Café Rakka in Tennessee and its fellow restaurants nationwide, the Coronavirus pandemic has become a crisis unlike any in living memory. With tolls both human and financial, there’s no guidebook for how to move forward.”
The Maine Farmer Saving the World’s Rarest Heirloom Seeds
Will Bonsall has spent a lifetime scattering seeds across the country. But will his efforts fall among the thorns?
Ordinary Insanity
The Pandemic’s First Wave
In Troubled Times, Make Your Memories as Best You Can
Stuck indoors, one housebound food journalist seeks a nostalgic comfort food from his youth: the traditional stuffed pasta from Lombardia, Italy called marubini. First he has to adjust the flour in the recipe.
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