In this stressful time, your world like mine probably feels unmoored. Anxieties have mushroomed, filled with a thousand concerns I couldn’t have unimagined a few months ago. At the same time my world has shrunk, reduced to the physical parameters of my house, garden, and … [Read more...]
1918: Mary McCarthy’s Personal Pandemic
As we all hunker down for COVID-19—from Seattle to Boston, South Africa to Switzerland—we’re haunted by stories of a similarly frightening influenza pandemic that swept the globe in 1918, just over a century ago. For Mary McCarthy, an important American novelist, essayist, and … [Read more...]
