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And we came outside and saw the stars again : writers from around the world on the COVID-19 pandemic / edited by Ilan Stavans.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--Social aspects.
- Epidemics.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First Restless Books trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- Writers from around the world provide essays, stories, poems and artwork detailing the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Contents:
- Part I. A mighty flame follows a tiny spark
- Our lives as birds / Shenaz Patel
- Letter to Italy / Jhumpa Lahiri
- A return to the Middle Ages? / Mario Vargas Llosa
- Pandemania / Daniel Halpern
- The hieroglyphs of COVID-19 ; or lockdown / Hubert Haddad
- The life of a virus / Javier Sinay
- An area of critical concern / Rajiv Mohabir
- Obstacle / Mona Kareem
- Part II. The path to paradise begins in hell
- Journal of the Kairos / Filip Springer
- A cowardly new world / Teresa Solana
- The intrusion / Naivo
- Augury / Frederika Randall
- Our old normal / Khalid Albaih
- A certain slant of light / Hamid Ismailov
- Genesis, COVID.19 / Andrés Neuman
- @Coronarratives / Nadia Christidi
- Plague days / Lynne Tillman
- The song of the stormy petrel : a cautionary tale / Maxim Osipov
- Today, when I could do nothing / Jane Hirshfield
- The virus of hasty cover-up / György Spiró
- Part III. I’m not alone in misery
- The longest shift : a new doctor faces the Coronavirus in Queens / Rivka Galchen
- Not without / Forrest Gander
- Toiling under the canopy of empire / Lilya Kalaus
- Chronicle from the vortex of a global tragedy / Gabriela Wiener
- The age of calamity / Jon Lee Anderson and Ilan Stavans in dialogue
- Peregrination / Louis-Philippe Dalembert
- Draupadi on the mountaintop / Priyanka Champaneri
- Confronting the pandemic in a time of revolt : voices from Chile / Ariel Dorfman
- The parable of the bread / Juan Villoro
- Confinement / Ana Simo
- Part IV. Faith Is the substance of things hoped for
- Corona correspondence #25 / Francine Prose
- My first lockdown / Majed Abusalama
- Coronapocalypse : reflections from lockdown / Pedro Ángel Palou
- The measure of a distance / Chloe Aridjis
- The descent / Wu Ming-Yi
- Quarantine chronicle / Eko
- Two poems / André Naffis-Sahely
- The day after the plague / Yishai Sarid
- In hiatus / Claire Messud
- Poem for Hikmet / Matthew Zapruder
- Part V. Love insists the loved loves back
- Coronavirus blues / Gábor T. Szántó
- Birthday / Sayed Kashua
- Living with my younger self / Arshia Sattar
- Empty days / Carlos Fonseca
- Quarantine / Eavan Boland
- Wounda / Eduardo Halfon
- The arm of mercy / Grace Talusan
- More was lost in the war / Daniel Alarcón
- Three poems / Chris Abani
- This, too, shall pass / Yoss
- My seclusion / Giacomo Sartori.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-63206-301-8
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