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Claire Bidwell Smith (Ron Purdy)

"People think they're grieving wrong"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Notes from an Apocalypse" by Mark O'Connell | A patient is provided medical care during the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Doubleday/Getty Images/Salon)

Are the rich preparing for apocalypse?

Chauncey DeVega
Split of: "All Adults Here" by Emma Straub, "Sansei & Sensibility by Karen Teil Yamashita, "The Prettiest Star" by Carter Sickels, and "Almond" by Won-pyung Sohn (Riverhead Books/Coffee House Press/Hub City Press/HarperVia/Salon)

Check out May's new must-read books

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
Stock Market tanking | Apocalypse (Getty Images/Salon)

How do we escape the "death economy"?

Chauncey DeVega
"On Vanishing" by Lynn Casteel Harper (Travis Tanay/Catapult)

"Our ageism is linked to the economy"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"American Harvest" by Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Sylvie Rosokoff/Graywolf Press)

Do you know where your wheat comes from?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pink planner with the words "I Am Very Busy" on the cover (ban.do)

"Being busy all the time is not healthy"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Good Boy by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Dan Haar/Celadon Books)

"Dogs see us for who we really are"

Nicole Karlis
Letter sent to Madeleine L'Engle from editor James Henle in regards to her story, "Summer Camp" | The Moment of Tenderness by Madeleine L'Engle (Grand Central Publishing/Crosswicks)

Read this early Madeleine L'Engle story

Madeleine L'Engle
Plant Magic by Christine Buckley (Shambhala/Lawrence Braun)

Science and herbalism become friends

Nicole Karlis
Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller (Kristen Finn/Simon & Schuster)

Lulu Miller's weird, unclassifiable book

Hanh Nguyen
"Broken" by Don Winslow (William Morrow)

Coronavirus is a metaphor for Trump pain

Chauncey DeVega
I Hate To Cook Book by Peg Bracken (John Engaland/Galahad Books)

Embrace "I Hate to Cook" 60 years later

Mary Elizabeth Williams
I Don't Want To Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux (Stephen Duarte/Simon & Schuster)

The case to abolish student debt

Nicole Karlis
"Betsey: A Memoir" by Betsey Johnson (Viking Publishers)

How Betsey Johnson is sheltering at home

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Lady's Handbook For Her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey (Doubleday/Julius Schlosburg)

The marginalization of mystery illnesses

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Afterlife"" by Julia Alvarez, "Perfect Tunes"" by Emily Gould, "The Coyotes of Carthage"" by Steven Wright, "The House of Deep Water"" by Jeni McFarland, and "How to Pronounce Knife"" by Souvankham Thammavongsa" (Algonquin Books/Simon & Schuster/Harper Collins/G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Little, Brown and Company)

Recommended: April's new must-read books

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
Donald Trump (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump's "mind control cult" in crisis

Chauncey DeVega
The Pleasure Gap by Katherine Rowland (Photos provided by publicist)

Why the sexual "pleasure gap" exists

Nicole Karlis
Slay The Dragon

How to un-rig an election

Andrew O'Hehir
Word of Faith Fellowship church leader Jane Whaley talk to members of the media as husband Sam listens during a news conference in Spindale, N.C., Thursday, March 2, 1995. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Slice missing from red velvet cake on a cakestand (Getty Images/ Martin Barraud)

A mission to make America bake again

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Kerry Washington, Celeste Ng, and Reese Witherspoon (Hulu)

3 books "Little Fires" author is reading

Hanh Nguyen
Three-Toed Tree Sloth Hanging on a Tree Trunk (Getty Images/Buddy Mays)

Do you think you can do nothing?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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