Pandemic Files: Dispatches from life in lockdown

105 n March, shortly after The Yale Review left its offices and its editors began to work remotely around the United States, we asked writers to send us accounts of their lived response to the unfolding global crisis. These responses were published as an ongoing collection on our web site (yalereview.yale.edu) as they came in. The “Pandemic Files” Folio aims to capture life in the age of the novel coronavirus, with dispatches and think pieces, medi­ tations and poems and interventions in the discourse around the epidemic. Here, we present a small selection of our pieces, soon to be col­ lected in an anthology published by Yale University Press, arranged largely in the order in which they were written. It is our hope that in thinking alongside one another, the pieces might begin to encapsulate both the inexpressible grief of our moment and the possibility for change and reflection held within it. folio Pandemic Files Dispatches from life in lockdown The Editors I ...