Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction xi
4. Do You Know Alex Oreille 1
5. MARCH
6. Cannon Fodder 9
7. There’s a Sickness Outside 13
8. Medicine’s Innovation Problem 19
9. March 11 23
10. The Lice 25
11. Spring 32
12. APRIL
13. Memories of West Fourth Street 35
14. The Law of Salus Populi 36
15. Pandemic Inequality 41
16. The Pandemic in Inupiaq 46
17. A Nurse Comes to Brooklyn 52
18. Sirenland 60
19. The White String 66
20. MAY
21. Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters 73
22. Leaving Yale for the Coronavirus Epicenter 76
23. Welcome to Zoom University 81
24. Reading The Decameron through the Lens of COVID-19 86
25. A Commencement Deferred 91
26. History Is Another Word for Trauma 97
27. The Children Know 103
28. Prelude 108
29. Get the Shovel 110
30. Two Poems: Provision, The Hour between Dog and Wolf 116
31. The Jail Crisis 119
32. Coronavirus and the Danger of Disbelief 132
33. Invisible Kingdoms 139
34. JUNE
35. The Trees Witness Everything 147
36. How I Became a Prophetess 150
37. Lives or Livelihoods 153
38. Thucydides in Times of Trouble 158
39. Safe 167
40. I Can’t Sleep 173
41. Giving Up the Ghost 179
42. The Crisis of Asylum at Trump’s Border Wall 185
43. The Dancing Drum 191
44. Notes and Sources 195
45. Acknowledgments 207
46. Contributors 209