Introduction
Maurice Biriotti

Part I: Politics1 'Give me liberty or death'
Lee Grieveson2 Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the Montreal-area Hasidic community
Lily Kahn, Zoë Belk, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, and Sonya Yampolskaya3 Shakespeare and the plague of productivity
Harvey Wiltshire4 The decolonial option and the end of the world
Izabella Wodzka5 Distant together: creative community in UK DIY music during Covid-19
Kirsty Fife6 Now are we cyborgs? Affinities and technology in the Covid-19 lockdowns
Emily Baker and Annie Ring

Part II: History7 Reflections on Covid-like pathogens in ancient Mesopotamia
Markham J. Geller8 Handwashing save slives: producing and accepting new knowledge in Jens Bjørneboe's Semmelweis (1968)
Elettra Carbone9 Experience and coping with isolation: what we can see from ethnic Germans in Britain 1914-18
Mathis J. Gronau10 Unexpectedly withdrawn and still engaged: reflections on the experiences of the Roman writer and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gesine Manuwald11 The Gallic Sack of Rome: an exemplum for our times
Elizabeth McKnight12 On Spinalonga
Panayiota Christodoulidou

Part III: Performance, identity and the screen13 The thing itself
Alexander Samson14 Towards a new history: The corona-seminar and the drag king virus
Helena Fallstrom15 'In spite of the tennis': Beckett's sporting apocalypse'
Sam Caleb16 Screening dislocated despair: projecting the neoliberal left-behinds in 100 Flowers Hidden Deep
Nashuyuan Serenity Wang17 A digital film for digital times: some lockdown thoughts on Gravity
Stephen M. Hart18 The Great Plague: London's Dreaded Visitation, 1665
Justin Hardy

Part IV: Literature and writing19 Lessons for lockdown from Thomas Mann's The Magic MountainJennifer Rushworth20 The locked room: On reading crime fiction during the Covid-19 pandemic
Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen21 The weight of the shrinking world
Florian Mussgnug22 A voice-mail lyric for a discipline in crisis: On Ben Lerner's 'The Media'
Matthew James Holman23 20,000 leagues under confinement
Patrick Bray24 Reflections on Guixiu literary cultures in East Asia
Tzu-Yu Lin

Part V: Personal reflections25 At home: Vaughan Williams' 'The Water Mill; and new meaninsg of 'quotidian'
Annika Lindskog26 The habit of freedom
Naomi Siderfin27 Pandemic dreaming
Adelais Mills28 In pursuit of blandness: On re-reading Jullien's In Praise of Blandness during lockdown
Emily Furnell29 Blinded lights: going viral during the Covid-19 pandemic
Sarah Moore

Part VI: Visual responses30 Morphologies of agents of the pandemic
SMRU (The Social Morphologies Research Unit : Davdi Burrows,Martin Holbraad, John Cussans, Kelly Fagan Robinson, Melanie Jackson, Dean Kenning, Inigo Minns, Lucy Sames, Hermione Spriggs, Mary Yacoob)31 Wildfire
John Thomson and Alison Craighead32 Poems from Gospel Oak
Sharon Morris33 I have a studio (visit) therefore I exist
Carey Young, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy and Karin Ruggaber34 Inventory
Jayne Parker35 After a long time or a short time
Elisabeth S. Clark36 When the roof blew off
Joe Cain

Index.