Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague

<strong>Dan Turello is a writer and cultural historian based in Washington, DC, and the creator of the <a href="http://www.piemonteseingiro.com/portraits">Alternative DC Portraits Project</a>.</strong>

Dan Turello

COVID and Kitsch: On Robert Zaretsky’s “Victories Never Last”

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

The Book of All Books

Old Testament, New Telling: On Roberto Calasso’s “The Book of All Books”

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Blaise Pascal</p>

Religion

Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance

The 14th-Century Sexual Revolution: On Guido Ruggiero’s “Love and Sex in the Time of Plague”

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Dan Turello is a writer and cultural historian based in Washington, DC, and the creator of the <a href="http://www.piemonteseingiro.com/portraits">Alternative DC Portraits Project</a>.