An Antidote for a Pandemic? A Good Book

As we struggle with forces beyond our control, remembering smaller comforts and pleasures can soothe, if perhaps not cure, what ails us

At least one of us, when departing New York for one of the smaller cities in New England, was not thinking: What have I left behind? When will I be back? How will we get food and toilet paper?

Instead, it was: I bet the book I ordered three weeks ago has arrived!

And it had. It was but the work of a moment to walk down the street and knock on the closed …