Pandemic Posts

The Chat with Shashi Bhat
Author Shashi Bhat explores the power of yearning, failed relationships, and pandemic isolation in her superb new collection of short fiction, Death by …

Illness Changes Everything: On Creating a Pandexicon
An excerpt from Grady's new book Pandexicon: How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality.

The Chat with Michael Harris
We start 2022 in conversation with Michael Harris. His new book, All We Want: Building the Life We Cannot Buy (Doubleday), explores the connection between …

Notes from a Children's Librarian: What I Miss About the Library
"When I think of the job of librarian, I think of time, layers of time."

Great Literary Getaways
These days under lockdown, it's books that can let us travel, voyage, and explore the world