Caitlin L. Chandler

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.

Germany’s Bold Experiment

The more a country tries to define its identity solely through culture, the more it turns in on itself. “The question is not who we are, but who we can become,” the late British social theorist Stuart Hall said. Germany is poised uneasily in that polarity.

Rome: Evicted Migrants, Active Fascists

Across Italy, some 10,000 migrants and refugees are living in squats. The housing crisis is part of a deliberate strategy by the government to make Italy as inhospitable to migrants as possible.