Anna Badkhen

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

Pandemic Journal, March 17–22

Dispatches on the coronavirus outbreak from Madeleine Schwartz in Brooklyn, Anne Enright in Dublin, Joshua Hunt in Busan, Anna Badkhen in Lalibela, Lauren Groff in Gainesville, and more.

Searching for Words in Mali

I would visit Fanta’s family in the bush where they were herding cows. Two nights before my arrival, her sons told me not to come. The militia that has been massacring ethnic Fulani herders had reached their part of Mali.

The View from 35,000 Feet

The travel Olga Tokarczuk portrays in her novel Flights is the stuff of airport hotels and dinner vouchers.