Where I Go: From Northeast London Back to Duluth
In Our Newly Delimited World, I Became a Terranaut of the Local
For me, as for millions, lockdown has been a masterclass in ways of escape. And even as “easing” widens horizons, I can’t see it catapulting us back to a time (2019) when 70 million flights filled the skies. The virologist Peter Piot put it bluntly in Science: “Let’s be clear: without a coronavirus vaccine, we will never be able to live normally again.”
So it’s unfinished, this business of escape artistry, of finding the new in a delimited world.
My partner and I live in northeast London, a mosaic of Victorian …
