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Title A world out of reach : dispatches from life under lockdown : selections from The Yale review's "Pandemic files" / edited and with an introduction by Meghan O'Rourke
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 214 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Do You Know Alex Oreille -- MARCH -- Cannon Fodder -- There's a Sickness Outside -- Medicine's Innovation Problem -- March 11 -- The Lice -- Spring -- APRIL -- Memories of West Fourth Street -- The Law of Salus Populi -- Pandemic Inequality -- The Pandemic in Inupiaq -- A Nurse Comes to Brooklyn -- Sirenland -- The White String -- MAY -- Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters -- Leaving Yale for the Coronavirus Epicenter -- Welcome to Zoom University -- Reading The Decameron through the Lens of COVID-19
A Commencement Deferred -- History Is Another Word for Trauma -- The Children Know -- Prelude -- Get the Shovel -- Two Poems: Provision, The Hour between Dog and Wolf -- The Jail Crisis -- Coronavirus and the Danger of Disbelief -- Invisible Kingdoms -- JUNE -- The Trees Witness Everything -- How I Became a Prophetess -- Lives or Livelihoods -- Thucydides in Times of Trouble -- Safe -- I Can't Sleep -- Giving Up the Ghost -- The Crisis of Asylum at Trump's Border Wall -- The Dancing Drum -- Notes and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors
Summary Selections from the Pandemic Files published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCO, viewed on July 26, 2021)
Subject COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects
Epidemics.
Quarantine.
Quarantine
Epidemics
epidemics.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects
Epidemics
Quarantine
Genre/Form Literature
Literature.
Littérature.
Form Electronic book
Author O'Rourke, Meghan, editor
ISBN 0300257368
9780300257366