In Peter Cameron’s short story, an angst-ridden teen wages a campaign of silence against the stepfather he can’t abide.

When her students were sent home from school owing to the coronavirus outbreak, an English teacher assigned them Albert Camus’s novel “The Plague.”

In the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a legal scholar sees a fatal confusion of citizen’s arrest, stand-your-ground law, and racial profiling. 

Larissa MacFarquhar talks with a would-be participant in a human-challenge trial, in which trial subjects are–hypothetically—infected with SARS-CoV2 to test a potential vaccine.

The musician describes releasing an album in quarantine and working his way to the other side of trauma.

The film critic shares his picks from an extensive review of plague-themed cinema.

David Remnick speaks with three mayors from across the country who describe the controversial politics of reopening.

A historian recalls the desperate measures taken to protect children from polio in a time no less frightening than our own, and how the disease was then forgotten.

Two Western writers go fishing on Montana’s Yellowstone River and share a pointed critique of “Western writing.”