Lockdown Nostalgia
The return to normalcy will be long, and we might even change our mind along the way.
The Dance of the Porcupines
Posted on April 21, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Detail from Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. (Via Wikimedia Commons.)
There is a risk that we will compensate for the current sense of crisis and isolation with too much closeness.
Wearing a Mask in France Would Be a Revolution
Posted on April 17, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: COVID-19 mask, French style, March 2020; François Escriva via flickr.
In France, wearing a COVID-19 mask will mean a real revolution in norms governing behavior in its public space.
Pruning the Mind During a Crisis
Why should anyone focus on the life of the mind when individual and societal survival is threatened?
Firmness
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on April 15, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Paperback cover illustration of Lew Archer by Mitchell Hooks.
Time to adopt a new hero: Lew Archer, private detective.
A Painter Crawling toward God
Posted on April 14, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Pietà, 1575–1576, by Titian (1490–1576); Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice; Wikipedia.
A deeply personal encounter with the plague.
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