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Pandemic Files

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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Pandemic Files

Safe

The world is collapsing, but we go on
Elisa Gabbert
June 18, 2020
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Pandemic Files

Reading the Decameron through the Lens of COVID-19

The fallacy of “literary distancing”
Millicent Marcus
June 22, 2020
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Pandemic Files

Giving Up the Ghost

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

Coronavirus and the Danger of Disbelief

Why was it so hard even for doctors to see what was coming?
Randi Hutter Epstein
June 16, 2020
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Pandemic Files

How I Became a Prophetess

Joyelle McSweeney
June 9, 2020
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Pandemic Files

Why Does Every Ad on TV Sound Exactly the Same?

How “In these uncertain times” became ad agencies’ favorite slogan
Ben Purkert
June 9, 2020
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Pandemic Files

Lives or Livelihoods

Zimbabwe’s hospitals are woefully unequipped for the pandemic, but the nation’s citizens can’t afford to stay inside.
Khameer Kidia
May 20, 2020
Black and white photo of light coming through windows in the apse of San Vitale in Ravenna with mosaics. Courtesy N.P. Sullo.
Essays

Days of 1952

On the rapture of experiencing art in solitude
James Merrill
April 1, 1992
Pandemic Files

The Children Know

When my father died of AIDS, he couldn’t shield me from his pain
Emily Ziff Griffin
May 14, 2020