Reassurance (is) lit.

China’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining, which suggests the virus may have peaked there (for now). 1/22

An editor at CNBC Business News suggests giving every American the coronavirus—meaning about 11 million deaths—to calm the markets. 2/22

What the fight against Ebola can teach us about beating Covid-19. And how to tell if you have the flu, the coronavirus, "or something else." 3/22

If you’re staying in, pandemic fiction is actually pretty comforting. 4/22

You know what’s also good if you’re at home? The 2020 edition of the Tournament of Books just got started! 5/22

The flip side of quarantine’s threat is technology’s promise—"we have been preparing for the end of in-person work for some time." 6/22

See also: “How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts.” 7/22

in LA’s typically vibrant Chinatown, visitors have vanished, and officials decry anti-Asian bigotry and misinformation. 8/22

An Australian newspaper prints blank pages (to be used in the bathroom) after coronavirus fears prompt a run on toilet paper. 9/22

A run-down of potential responses and outcomes from the Louisiana abortion case facing the Supreme Court. 10/22

TIME designs 100 new covers to make up for all of the years that women were overlooked. 11/22

Technological advances and growing research have paved the way for the current revolution in sports bras. 12/22

A woman lovingly cared for a succulent for two years before realizing it’s fake. 13/22

Hermés handbag values grew 13% in 2019, outpacing investments like art, stamps, and wine. 14/22

A trove of handmade movie poster art is found in Ōme, a small town on the outskirts of Tokyo. 15/22

Your weekemnd white paper: The majority of popular movies from 2008-2017, including films for kids, have at least one torture scene. 16/22

The city of Osaka unveils a "book forest" for children, i.e., a library filled with outward-facing books. 17/22

“Reassurance lit” is the genre that trumpets the humanities as an enterprise… to people who work in the humanities. 18/22

At Matthew Marks, a new show emphasizes the impermanent existence of things in the world and on the internet. 19/22

An ambitious home concept in Cape Cod buries a luxury house inside sand dunes. 20/22

Ode to a large bunch of purple balloons stuck in a tree in Manhattan. 21/22

A dog’s way of being in the world is marked by spontaneity, a directness of response. Why can't we be more like them? 22/22

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