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On April 19, 2020, in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, Kelly Davio tweeted, “What zombie movies got wrong about the actual apocalypse, part 1,487: they…

I can trace the beginning of the end to March 9. On that date, I started receiving last-gasp emails from retail stores that had me on record as a customer….

There’s a moment in Severance, before the beginning of the end, when Candace Chen finds herself crying on the fire escape of her East Village apartment. It’s an in-between moment,…

Shortly after the US began its waves of lockdowns, academics took to Twitter to scold one another about working. “Productivity in a crisis,” in Summer Kim Lee’s characterization of leftist…

Shen Fever enters the public consciousness slowly and unassumingly. It had been “in the news through the summer,” Candace recalls at an office-wide meeting on the subject, “like a West…

Severance, published in 2018, is about a fungal disease that originates in Shenzhen and takes down most of the world population in a few months. We probably don’t need to…