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Peter Hessler, a staff writer based in China, describes the long weeks indoors. And Lawrence Wright talks about the ripple effects of a pandemic. (article)
Peter Hessler, a staff writer based in China, describes the long weeks indoors. And Lawrence Wright talks about the ripple effects of a pandemic. (episode)
The staff writer is one of eight hundred million people in China living under some kind of restriction. China’s response has been effective, but Hessler finds it worrisome all the same.
Lawrence Wright is primarily a journalist, but he recently wrote a novel about the spread of a novel virus. Infections come and go, he says, but a pandemic reshapes society.
The sister of a feared, internationally known criminal describes what it was like to turn him in.