Marta Figlerowicz, an associate professor of comparative literature and English at Yale, discusses classic works of literature about pandemics from Boccaccio's The Decameron to Camus' The Plague. Plus, she psychoanalyzes Noah's love of detective novels.

Marta Figlerowicz's Pandemic Reading List

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Plague by Albert Camus
Occupation Journal by Jean Giono

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