![]() ![]() ![]() In March 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine worked to create a collection of stories written just as the pandemic first swept the globe. ![]() Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables. In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people. When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it. A stunning collection o f new fiction previously published as The Decameron Project and originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic first spread across the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kushner, Colm Tóibín, Charles Yu, and more. ![]()
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