Pandemic Files

Pandemic Files

The Moment

The Physician as Patient

Medicine after COVID-19
Laura Kolbe
June 1, 2022

Lighted Windows in Lockdown

The visible and invisible lives of others
Ben Libman
March 14, 2022

The Mother Between Us

Fady Joudah
March 14, 2022
Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos. View of a lab with graphic of biohazard symbol.
Poem of the Week

PPE

Angelo Mao
July 28, 2021
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

My Summer of Julien Gracq

Reading a French novelist’s examination of liminal space in a plague year
Seth Lerer
January 11, 2021
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.

Surviving COVID-19

Waking up after six days on a ventilator
Slavenka Drakulić
November 9, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.

Seven Theses on the Open-Closed Theaters

The pandemic has shuttered theaters, but the need for communal experience has never been more vital
Feisal G. Mohamed
October 21, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.

Do the Boy Scouts Have a Future?

Sarah Trudgeon
August 19, 2020

We Miss Each Other, But Do We Even Know Each Other?

After a long-ago theater closure, a female playwright complicated what it means to be intimate with another body
Katherine Mannheimer
July 23, 2020