The Books Briefing: Turning to Fiction to Cope With Fear
The literature of disasters: Your weekly guide to the best in books
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, disrupting some of the most of , people around the world are facing the anxiety and uncertainty that come with an unseen and fast-moving threat. Readers and writers have often turned to literature to help make sense of such crises, whether in retrospect—as Daniel Defoe did with a novel about London’s 17th-century plague—or