| 1. Your Lockdown Experience Wasn’t Just About Luck “In America, your experience of lockdown — and of the pandemic as a whole — depended not on luck or chance or fortune. It was instead largely foretold by something far more prosaic: the position you held on the socioeconomic spectrum, by your class, race and gender. Across so many issues, the pandemic is not a story of an infection curve rising and falling, but two lines moving in different directions.” 2. From Crypto Art to Trading Cards, Investment Manias Abound “For months, professional and everyday investors have pushed up the prices of stocks and real estate. Now the frenzy has spilled over into the riskiest — and in some cases, wackiest — assets, including digital ephemera and media, cryptocurrencies, collectibles like trading cards and even sneakers.” 3. 7 Questions, 75 Artists, 1 Very Bad Year “I’ve made nothing. On four separate occasions, I arranged my schedule with [my wife] Carrie so I could have six uninterrupted hours a day to write. All four times, I emerged from my office after two or three weeks, rattled, defeated, feeling lousy about myself. My wife finally said, ‘Here’s what you have to do: read books, watch movies, cook dinner and take care of our boy.’ That is what I’ve done. And while my family is my focus and my joy, from a creative standpoint, this year for me has been a dust storm.” 4. Prepare Yourself For Grief “I love being proactive — I’m all about having a go bag with extra batteries, duct tape and granola bars ready for any emergency. But what, if anything, could I do to prepare myself for grief?” 5. Can We Patch Up the Natural World We’ve Hurt? “The systems that support us are now hybrid human-natural ones, and maintaining them increasingly requires us to adopt inventive strategies to correct for our previous attempts at control, efforts that have frequently led to highly unfortunate outcomes.” 6. A Sweeping History of What We Eat “Every issue touches another.”
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