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Poets and novelists have been writing about life under COVID-19 for more than a century

  • Written by Rachel Hadas, Professor of English, Rutgers University Newark
imageLiterature from long ago speaks to the human experience of plague. Marco Rosario Venturini Autieri/Getty

Pondering the now no-longer Dixie Chicks – renamed “The Chicks” – Amanda Petrusich wrote in a recent issue of the New Yorker, “Lately, I’ve caught myself referring to a lot of new releases as prescient...

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