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Article content If you (re)read The Plague earlier in the pandemic, then you were ready for what we’re going through now. “Rieux and his friends now discovered how tired they were,” Albert Camus said of his protagonist after the quarantine had dragged on longer than anyone had ever imagined. “Dr. Rieux noticed it when he observed the steady growth of a strange indifference in himself and in his friends,” he continued. “Men who up to now had shown such a lively interest in any news a...

Familial and fraternal hauntings have long been central to the stories we tell, from Enkidu’s ghost in The Epic of Gilgamesh to Odysseus conferring with his slain brother-in-arms Achilles to Banquo’s discarnate presence in Macbeth to Wuthering Heights’s sorrowful Catherine. More recently, there’s erratic detective John River, who confers with his newly dead partner, Stevie, in the television series River. In the nineteenth century, such fictive imaginings were often based on real lo...