If there is a way forward for the “pandemic novel,” it may be in Emma Donoghue’s claustrophobic settings of motherhood and childbirth.
Emily Bloom
Emily Bloom is the author of The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931–1968 (Oxford University Press, 2016), which was awarded the First Book Prize by the Modernist Studies Association. She is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. 