Tag: Coronavirus

When things get hard, we look to our most fundamental relationships. This is the story of a son, a father, a camper van, a pandemic, and the ties that bind.

In the wake of their parents’ deaths, three siblings struggle to get through the day-to-day.

Although people will always travel and write about their experiences, it remains unclear how the travel writing form will look after Covid-19.

I sometimes forget that it’s all the same thing.

“In a country where nobody can agree on much, we seem to agree on Brené Brown.”

Or, the newsletter in which I conclude that time is a flat circle.

“Oh, all the one-way tickets! / I haven’t found anything / more sorrowful than you / in the pockets of the world.”

Marcia Aldrich on why cell phones, so thin and light and little, don’t seem fitting for momentous calls, for life and death communications, or for last words.

This week critics have looked to Huysmans, Camus and Jean-Philippe Toussaint for COVID-era inspiration.

After separating from her husband and entering quarantine, Anne Liu Kellor faces her ongoing desire for a partner and the necessity of loving herself.

“…the ship…provided the world’s best data set on the virus, confirming crucial facts about how the disease spread, especially through asymptomatic carriers.”

Am I ghoul for buying all these plague books?

In isolation, Stephanie Land finds surprising relief from PTSD — and discovers she is able to write again.

“Infamously … Goethe dismissed the younger writer as diseased.”

You don’t know what day it is, do you? Robert Burke Warren digs into ‘the Oddball Effect’ and fascinating brain data that may help explain why.

All the good habits and self-optimization in the world don’t give you real control over your body. Back away from the bread starter.

Give me a Bolaño novel that starts with a guy walking into a bar, and then another guy starts telling him a story, and the rest of that novel is just the second guy telling that story.

Under self-quarantine, Aaron Gilbreath ‘moves’ freely with the help of Rambalac’s video travelogues.

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.