2020* The Year of the Asterisk: American Essays

Is it over? Are we safe yet? What the hell happened? Or, rather, more aptly: What didn't happen?

In 2020, we were deceived and misled. Each day offered a new challenge, revealed some new horror, and there was no relief in being told it was simply the nature of the world, the nature of our society. 2020 was the kind of thing that happens to people in textbooks, except it was happening in real time to all of us. We probably need group therapy to make sense of it all, to address our individual...