A Quarantine Reading List

1. Self Portrait With iPhone
   Newly single in her mid-50s, Pam Mandel swipes through dozens of selfies, including her own.
2. What Do We Do Without Live Music?
3. The Un-Heroic Reality of Being an ‘Essential’ Restaurant Worker
   As a restaurant employee, I’ve been deemed an essential worker. But you’d never know that from the way I’m treated.
4. Inside the Nightmare Voyage of the Diamond Princess
5. Quarantining With a Ghost? It’s Scary
   For those who believe they’re locked down with spectral roommates, the pandemic has been less isolating than they bargained for.
   
6. The First Shot: Inside the Covid Vaccine Fast Track
   The very first vaccine candidate entered human trials—and Neal Browning’s arm—on March 16. Behind the scenes at Moderna and the beginning of an unprecedented global sprint.
   
7. My Appetites
   On eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer, and pandemics.
   
8. The Actual Experience of Virtual Experiences
   You can tour a museum at 9, take a mixology class at 11, and swoop over Machu Picchu at 3, but do these online versions of “doing stuff” really scratch the itch?
   
9. Hard sell: Japan’s retail sector may need to reinvent itself in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
   A sea change in shopping habits amid the new coronavirus outbreak could impact marketing and distribution across the country for years to come
   
10. Reinventing Grief in an Era of Enforced Isolation
    When my father died, of leukemia, as the coronavirus pandemic accelerated, my family and I became members of a vanguard that we’d never aspired to join.