Confinement and Escape: Emma Donoghue and E.L. Doctorow in Our Time of Self-Isolation
Emma Donoghue's Room and E.L. Doctorow's Homer & Langley define and confront life within limited space.
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OK Go’s Emotional New Ballad, “All Together Now”, Inspired by Singer’s Bout with COVID-19
Damian Kulash, lead singer for OK Go discusses his recent bout with COVID-19, how it impacted his family, and the band's latest pop delight, "All Together Now", as part of our Love in the Time of Coronavirus series.
Poe, Pandemic, and Underlying Conditions
To read Edgar Allan Poe in the time of pandemic, we need to appreciate a very different aspect of his perspective—not that of a mimetic artist but of the political economist.
Marc Maron’s Private Grief on a Public Stage
The risky healing power of Marc Maron's WTF podcast eulogy to Lynn Shelton.
Taking a Page About Community and Responsibility from Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’
Initially, the city of Oran does not take care of its most vulnerable populations in Camus’ The Plague, and as a result, the city suffers for it. This parallels today’s COVID-19 world.
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Isolation Odyssey: Behind the Scenes with a Lockdown Orchestra
Scattered throughout the world, members of Opera North's orchestra share how they are enduring the loss of live performance and companionship during the COVID-19 lockdown. They also share a mood-lifting, online isolation performance of a work that everyone knows but not always for the same reasons.
COVID-19 Means Living Life in Two Minds at Once
COVID-19 has created a day-by-day experience in which we realize there are no perfect answers, and every moment exists as a co-mingling of light and dark counterpoints.
Scott McCaughey Is Scott the Hoople with Sad Boxes and Singing Chickens
Recorded last month in his basement, Scott the Hoople's (a.k.a. Scott McCaughey's) Sad Box & Other Hits is a low-key collection of quality pop quaran-tunes.
Next Day. Same Time. Same Place: How Waiting Out the Pandemic Is Like Waiting for Godot
Even though these times of self-isolating feel absurd, the Theater of the Absurd has a lot to teach us about waiting, time, isolation, and feeling like we exist.
Pandemics and Trumpian Echoes in Miller’s ‘Blackfish City’
When we can't turn to the federal government for the truth, sometimes we need to turn to fiction. Sam J. Miller's Blackfish City maps a pandemic in a post-United States future.
Work Doesn’t Always Look Like Work: In Defense of Radical Laziness During COVID-19
Expecting financially devastated artists to produce during the coronavirus shutdown is akin to handing a condemned man a typewriter on his way to the gallows. To hell with that.