The Truth of Lockdown, and its Escape
Daniel Defoe and John Donne’s alternative languages of disease and isolation—and their meaning now.
The world is yet to imagine Covid. We have no visions of the lockdown, no language even, beyond the official vocabulary that dominates all talk of the pandemic. It has been difficult, of course, to see beyond the window from our various vantages of confinement and sequestration. This makes a Covid imagination all the more urgent, however. As we begin to…
