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Pandemic Files

Surviving COVID-19

Waking up after six days on a ventilator
Slavenka Drakulić
November 9, 2020
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Pandemic Files

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
Pandemic Files

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
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Pandemic Files

The First Nerve

What one's sense of smell takes with it when it goes
Amrapali Maitra
July 21, 2020
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Essays

Why I Write

Getting ready not to be
Samuel R. Delany
December 1, 2020
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Pandemic Files

Invisible Kingdoms

How do you convince people to share your reality?
Noreen Khawaja
July 7, 2020
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Pandemic Files

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
Pandemic Files

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
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Pandemic Files

The Dancing Drum

Joy amid the anger of the protests
Roger Reeves
June 29, 2020
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Pandemic Files

Thucydides in Times of Trouble

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