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A World Out of Reach This page intentionally left blank A W O R LD O U T O F R EAC H DISPAT CHE S FROM LIFE UND ER L OCKDOWN Selections from The Yale Review’s “Pandemic Files” Edited and with an Introduction by MEGHA N O’ROURKE IN ASSOCIATION WITH Copyright © 2020 by Yale University. Introduction copyright © 2020 by Meghan O’Rourke. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e-mail [email protected] (U.S. office) or [email protected] (U.K. office). Set in Gotham and Adobe Garamond types by Integrated Publishing Solutions, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Control Number: 2020942320 ISBN 978-0-300-25735-9 (paper: alk. paper) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To the memory of those who lost their lives to COVID-19 and to the essential workers who kept the world running during the pandemic This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction Meghan O’Rourke xi Do You Know Alex Oreille Katie Kitamura 1 MARCH Cannon Fodder Laura Kolbe 9 There’s a Sickness Outside Nitin Ahuja 13 Medicine’s Innovation Problem Rena Xu 19 March 11 Alicia Mireles Christoff 23 The Lice Miranda Featherstone 25 Spring Maya C. Popa 32 CONTENTS APRIL Memories of West Fourth Street Major Jackson 35 The Law of Salus Populi John Fabian Witt 36 Pandemic Inequality Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz 41 The Pandemic in Inupiaq Joan Naviyuk Kane 46 A Nurse Comes to Brooklyn Nell Freudenberger 52 Sirenland Briallen Hopper 60 The White String Brandon Shimoda 66 MAY Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung 73 Leaving Yale for the Coronavirus Epicenter Eric O’Keefe-Krebs 76 Welcome to Zoom University Sean Lynch 81 Reading The Decameron through the Lens of COVID-19 Millicent Marcus 86 viii CONTENTS A Commencement Deferred Meghana Mysore 91 History Is Another Word for Trauma Rachel Jamison Webster 97 The Children Know Emily Ziff Griffin 103 Prelude Rowan Ricardo Phillips 108 Get the Shovel Kathryn Lofton 110 Two Poems: Provision, The Hour between Dog and Wolf Monica Ferrell 116 The Jail Crisis Russell Morse 119 Coronavirus and the Danger of Disbelief Randi Hutter Epstein 132 Invisible Kingdoms Noreen Khawaja 139 JUNE The Trees Witness Everything Victoria Chang 147 How I Became a Prophetess Joyelle McSweeney 150 ix
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