What to Read During a Pandemic

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Marta Figlerowicz, an associate professor of comparative literature and English at Yale, discusses classic works of literature about pandemics from Boccaccio's The Decameron to Camus' The Plague. Plus, she psychoanalyzes Noah's love of detective novels.

Marta Figlerowicz's Pandemic Reading List

  • The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
  • Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
  • Molloy by Samuel Beckett
  • Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Plague by Albert Camus
  • Occupation Journal by Jean Giono

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