Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

April 7, 2020

Quinn the Quarantine Fox Wants You to Be Safe at Home

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting buyers from the dangers of household items, issuing recalls and teaching people how to avoid […]
April 7, 2020

Why Animal Crossing Is the Game for the Coronavirus Moment

Imagine escaping to an island paradise where bags of money fall out of trees and a talking raccoon can approve you for a mortgage. With the […]
April 7, 2020

The Art of the Pitch in the Midst of a Pandemic

LOS ANGELES — Millions of people had started to shelter in place. The global economy was cratering. Coronavirus-panicked shoppers were clawing at each other over toilet […]
April 6, 2020

I Think We’re Alone Now. Welcome.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to be alone. I’m a writer in my mid-40s who is neither partnered nor has […]
April 6, 2020

Men Are Dressing for Zoom

If, for Ryan Dichter, Week 1 of his coronavirus isolation was a time for dandling his infant daughter, Teddy, slouching around in sweatpants and waiting for […]
April 6, 2020

Suddenly, I See Myself Everywhere

I spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to be alone. I’m a writer in my mid-40s who is neither partnered nor has […]
April 5, 2020

Should I Start Wearing a Mask?

To mask or not to mask? For the past few months, public health officials have been unyielding in their stance that healthy people should not wear […]
April 4, 2020

Larry David, Master of His Quarantine

Our lives now depend on staying home and doing nothing. We are cooped up with no end in sight, getting increasingly irascible. So I thought I […]
April 4, 2020

Larry David, Master of His Quarantine

Our lives now depend on staying home and doing nothing. We are cooped up with no end in sight, getting increasingly irascible. So I thought I […]
April 3, 2020

Relationships Move Fast on a Slow Cargo Ship

Liz and I were on a cargo ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with the sun setting and a light wind. The scene resembled […]