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Contagion Fables

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, […]

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