Sylvia Poggioli

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

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.

How My Father Made Landfall

It is a measure of the “age of anxiety” W.H. Auden named that even as the postwar Communist-dominated Italian literary world treated my father as a pariah, the FBI in the United States suspected him of being a Communist himself.