In his new book "The Wisdom of Plagues," author Donald G. McNeil, Jr. details his decades reporting on global pandemics and the failures by American officials to combat grand scourges effectively ...

Lawrence Wright, author of “The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID,” says he think theories that covid-19 originated in nature or from a lab leak are both plausible, but he believes it ...

Microbiologist Siro Trevisanato, author of The Plagues of Egypt: Archaeology, History and Science Look at the Bible, argues that ancient Egyptian medical texts support this idea.

That paradox defines the subject of Camus’ novel, The Plague, and to a great extent, our lives today. Happy to find my original copy on a bookshelf, I have been amazed at the re-reading of it.

The Author of ‘Frankenstein’ Also Wrote a Post-Apocalyptic Plague Novel ‘The Last Man’ was derided in its time for being too grim, but today it would fit in with a growing genre of ...

Turns out the plague was, er, plaguing humans far earlier than once thought. A study of ancient DNA pulled from human teeth in Asia and Europe finds that the bacteria Yersinia pestis had infected ...

It sounded to me like a description of America's impasse in the--in the plague year, and to be honest, today as well. Talk about that a little bit and about how in your mind we're going to get ...