In only a few cases in the magazine’s nearly 100-year history, The New Yorker has dedicated an issue to a single story. Such was the case this holiday season, with Lawrence Wright’s urgent, epic, and astonishing account of the COVID crisis in America in 2020.

I had the honor of narrating Wright’s “The Plague Year” for the New Yorker. You can listen and read here, or on the Audm app.