covid

The social distancing resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged us to seek new ways to socialise and communicate with our friends, colleagues, and loved ones. From online catchups for…

One striking feature of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the number of people who have expressed pleasure in the solitariness of lockdown. ‘Solitude’ in our society is usually equated with…

…COVID-19. Together with Kathleen Bogart, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State University, who studies stigma and social support related to…

…I have been diagnosed with a chronic illness that brought with it increased risk from COVID alongside an exclusion from some of the things that gave me the most joy….

…us today, as we self-isolate to protect ourselves from Covid 19. Of course many of us are not living alone but in households, sometimes very crowded ones, as we long…

…where I want to be. Out in the open, in the sun-soaked dusty heat, where COVID-19, and the misery accompanying it, belongs to a different world, one that doesn’t exist,…

…life in the time of COVID-19. Work For someone whose job revolves around very solitary practices of reading and writing, one might imagine that a lockdown should be a time…

…like that. You look left and right and everybody has the same thing. ‘Coronavirus (COVID-19) UK‘ by Tim Dennell. CC BY-NC 2.0. I’m not talking to anyone. You go on…

…my own response to Covid-19, like so many others I have returned to literature that responds to past pandemics. American writer William Maxwell’s second book, They Came like Swallows (1937),…

…that reach deep into people’s psychic lives, especially during experiences of bereavement and grief. Recent years, with the Covid 19 pandemic, have made such experiences all too common, especially in…