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Review: David Alff on Quarantine

Nov 23, 2021
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In their unnvervingly timed new book, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley investigate humanity’s most potent and problematic tool for managing contagion. Quarantine is the duration of time and enclosure of space to which a potentially dangerous someone or something is sequestered “until proven safe,” a passive grammatical formula that implicitly asks who p…

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