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H. Porter Abbott
For years Hollywood has been filming the viral apocalypse, and now at last we seem to be trapped in it—though our virus is not as fast-acting or as deadly as those on film. Nor is it as interesting in its effects. We are not yet biting each other or falling into fits of uncontrollable rage […]
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John Hay
“Isn’t this your moment?” ask my friends nowadays. “You’re a scholar of the apocalypse.” My work examines how American authors have written about the apocalypse and its aftermath, from the colonial period to the present. So I’m certainly feeling—writing this at my kitchen table during a “shelter-at-home” directive from the Governor of Nevada—that I’ve seen […]
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T. R. Johnson
New Orleans is never more lovely than in April. But this year, we’ll have no Jazz Fest – and we’ll have to get by without those rolling block parties we call second-line parades too; and without crawfish boils. Of course, April is the very height of our tourist season, but that entire industry has collapsed […]
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Ross Wilson.
Ask the majority of the world’s inhabitants to close their eyes and imagine a city. They might picture skyscrapers, railroads, busy highways and throngs of people. Whilst they may think of cities near them, cities they may have visited or cities they have read of in novels and newspapers, they imagine New York. This is […]
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David Bergman
About disease, I am a fatalist. Fifteen years ago, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor; then ten years later, Parkinson’s Disease. In neither case could I have done anything to avoid getting ill. I didn’t smoke or drink. More exercise, better food, less tension would have done nothing. A recent book tells me I was […]
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Marlene L Daut, Kaiama L Glover
When natural disaster strikes the so-called developing world it is, both literally and figuratively, no surprise. Pundits and journalists across the political spectrum tend to normalize tragedy in places outside North America and Europe. Even the most well-meaning and most ostensibly progressive among us adopt a similar stance when talking about the world beyond the […]
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Jorge Luis Borges wrote that his nightmares took the form of a trajectory across a labyrinth or a room of mirrors. There was always a distant destination and a very concrete topographical starting point: a specific corner in the city of Buenos Aires. These corners were in different parts of the city but they were […]
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Vona Groarke
My friend’s mother died on Wednesday in a Dublin hospital, of C-19. None of the usual obsequies are available to me now: I can’t send flowers or go to the funeral. What’s left to me is words and only words; words over the phone, words typed in a text message. Better, more personal, more considered […]
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H. Porter Abbott
For years Hollywood has been filming the viral apocalypse, and now at last we seem to be trapped in it—though our virus is not as fast-acting or as deadly as those on film. Nor is it as interesting in its effects. We are not yet biting each other or falling into fits of uncontrollable rage […]
Read More
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John Hay
“Isn’t this your moment?” ask my friends nowadays. “You’re a scholar of the apocalypse.” My work examines how American authors have written about the apocalypse and its aftermath, from the colonial period to the present. So I’m certainly feeling—writing this at my kitchen table during a “shelter-at-home” directive from the Governor of Nevada—that I’ve seen […]
Read More
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T. R. Johnson
New Orleans is never more lovely than in April. But this year, we’ll have no Jazz Fest – and we’ll have to get by without those rolling block parties we call second-line parades too; and without crawfish boils. Of course, April is the very height of our tourist season, but that entire industry has collapsed […]
Read More
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Ross Wilson.
Ask the majority of the world’s inhabitants to close their eyes and imagine a city. They might picture skyscrapers, railroads, busy highways and throngs of people. Whilst they may think of cities near them, cities they may have visited or cities they have read of in novels and newspapers, they imagine New York. This is […]
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David Bergman
About disease, I am a fatalist. Fifteen years ago, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor; then ten years later, Parkinson’s Disease. In neither case could I have done anything to avoid getting ill. I didn’t smoke or drink. More exercise, better food, less tension would have done nothing. A recent book tells me I was […]
Read More
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Marlene L Daut, Kaiama L Glover
When natural disaster strikes the so-called developing world it is, both literally and figuratively, no surprise. Pundits and journalists across the political spectrum tend to normalize tragedy in places outside North America and Europe. Even the most well-meaning and most ostensibly progressive among us adopt a similar stance when talking about the world beyond the […]
Read More
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Jorge Luis Borges wrote that his nightmares took the form of a trajectory across a labyrinth or a room of mirrors. There was always a distant destination and a very concrete topographical starting point: a specific corner in the city of Buenos Aires. These corners were in different parts of the city but they were […]
Read More
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Vona Groarke
My friend’s mother died on Wednesday in a Dublin hospital, of C-19. None of the usual obsequies are available to me now: I can’t send flowers or go to the funeral. What’s left to me is words and only words; words over the phone, words typed in a text message. Better, more personal, more considered […]
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