Contagion Fables
Posted in coronavirus, dystopia, pestilence on Mar 28th, 2020
In an essay in the March 30 issue of the New Yorker entitled “What Our Contagion Fables Are Really About,” Jill Lepore offers a wide-ranging, squirm-inducing discussion of the “literature of pestilence.” Early in the article she writes: The literature of contagion is vile. A plague is like a lobotomy. It cuts away the higher realms, […]