Tag: Coronavirus

The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read.

When the only way to be a real community is to be apart, it quickly becomes obvious who is out for themselves.

Coronavirus inspires Sari Botton to reach out to family and friends she’s fallen out with.

He screamed, and I mean really screamed, to no one and to every one of us who was peeking at him out our windows: “What are we even doing out here!!??”

With physical distancing the order of the day as COVID-19 spreads, cultural locales — sites for communal experiences, like museums and theaters — are emptying out. What are we sharing if we’re not sharing these spaces? And were we really sharing them to begin with?

In the midst of a pandemic, nature reminds Susan Krawitz that miracles are possible.

‘“You shouldn’t stay here,” he says, but he gets more frightened as night comes, dreading the long hours of fever and soaking sweats and shivering and terrible aches.’

I will become power-mad and lock my boyfriend inside forever!

As she’s done before, Sara B. Franklin greets the specter of death by defiantly planting a life-sustaining vegetable garden.

No ‘One Shining Moment,’ no Bill Raftery, no Cinderellas. How one writer feels lost without March Madness.

Our stories matter. And they are our legacies for future generations. (Plus: some free writing resources.)

Lawrence Wright did it again; Jordan Peterson in a coma?; Myriam Gurba forced out of her job; Woody Allen canceled by his publisher’s employees; THE VIRUS; and more.

One Republican offers a ray of light during these dark times: That this pandemic will end the Trump presidency.

We can all quarantine alone, together, in one big villa in the cloud.

Just read it. And go wash your hands.