MEGA 08/21

Years from now libraries, whether virtual or actual ones, will be packed with literature, one editor shares the wildly divergent emotions of traveling a - to the Land of the Free, where the brave are already roaming sans masks and social distancing. Meanwhile, in , we peer through the digital divide that the pandemic has made even greater and more explicit: for every person contentedly working from home, there are several sitting in limbo or in simmering frustration as sub-par gadgets sputter and internet connections stall, both screen and time frozen and wasted. Lastly, in , one writer puts her glass down and resolves to abstain from alcohol, the emotional lubricant that so many rely on to get through a first date or a rough patch in a marriage. Is romance better sober? That, and so many other questions are up for debate and subject, no doubt, to change.