Apr 10, 2020 · Virginia Woolf understood as well as anyone the long-term effects that viruses could wreak on bodies, and on societies. Photograph from Alamy. In the first days of the stay …

Mar 10, 2022 · From Virginia Woolf to Gary Shteyngart, novelists have struggled to narrativize the long tail of pandemics.

Mar 21, 2020 · Another light has gone out on Broadway — due to the coronavirus pandemic, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has canceled its run. On Saturday, producers of the revival of …

May 9, 2020 · A few years shy of being a century old, Woolf’s 1926 essay titled, “On Being Ill” is a balm for the distressed and the quarantined in a society afflicted with the invisible Coronavirus.

May 8, 2021 · Nine years after the end of World War I, which left 40 million people dead or wounded, and seven since a global flu pandemic killed at least that many, Woolf sought to …

Jan 25, 2023 · H. Steven Moffic, MD, discusses how now, more than ever, we need to emphasize love over hate. The play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" might serve as an example. Dr …

Jun 1, 2020 · Reading about a party during a pandemic is like watching baking shows while working out (which I also do—or used to, before the Y closed). I’ve been rereading Virginia …

In this piece, I posit that one of Virginia Woolf’s most studied post-pandemic novels, Mrs Dalloway (1925) is an exemplary document of how illness and pandemic culture influenced the …

Nov 12, 2021 · In each of these moments, Woolf tells us that life, even at its brightest and darkest moments, is nevertheless mundane and must still carry on. In light of the COVID-19 global …

Mar 8, 2024 · In this direction, I borrow notions of time from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway to examine how social time intersperses with the paid and (unpaid) care work of female …