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Post of the Year: Plagues in Literature

A survey of literature through the ages that has dealt with plagues.

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A Literary Survey of What Plagues Mean

A survey of how literary authors have grappled for meaning in times of pestilence bolsters our own search. I look at Sophocles, Virgil, Defoe, Porter, Camus, King, Mandel, Atwood, and Erdrich.

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Pale Horse, Pale Rider–in 1918 and Now

Katherine Anne Porter’s novella about the 1918 flu epidemic may give us a glimpse into our own immediate future.

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