In Queens, after thirteen-hour shifts in the ER, a doctor dons running shoes and makes the long jog home.Īnd We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante’s Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In Chile, protesters who prevailed against tear gas and rubber bullets are now halted by a virus. In Paris, a writer struggles to protect his young son from fear.
In Mauritius, a journalist contends with denialism and mourns the last days of summer, lost to the lockdown. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.Īs our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic.
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