Pandemic Files

Pandemic Files

Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.

The First Nerve

What one's sense of smell takes with it when it goes
Amrapali Maitra
July 21, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.

Prelude

Rowan Ricardo Phillips
July 9, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.

Invisible Kingdoms

How do you convince people to share your reality?
Noreen Khawaja
July 7, 2020
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The Crisis of Asylum at Trump’s Border Wall

A symbol is being built for the sake of voters who have never been to the borderlands
Emily Gogolak
July 2, 2020

A Nurse Comes to Brooklyn

She wanted to do something for herself, so she traveled 1,200 miles to care for COVID-19 patients
Nell Freudenberger
June 30, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.

The Dancing Drum

Joy amid the anger of the protests
Roger Reeves
June 29, 2020
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Thucydides in Times of Trouble

Rereading the ancient historian after my father died
Emily Greenwood
June 24, 2020
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The Jail Crisis

Riker's Island has been devastated by Covid-19, but getting out is just the beginning
Russell Morse
June 23, 2020
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Reading the Decameron through the Lens of COVID-19

The fallacy of “literary distancing”
Millicent Marcus
June 22, 2020
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Giving Up the Ghost

There are a million ways to teach a Black boy about death
Hafizah Geter
June 18, 2020