nytimes June 8, 2021 12:00pm Book Review: ‘The Plague Year,’ by Lawrence Wright #booksandliterature #coronavirus2019ncov #epidemics #masks #wrightlawrence #theplagueyearamericainthetimeofcovidbook #news The Year We Battled Covid, Revisited In “The Plague Year,” Lawrence Wright tells the story of the pandemic that upended all of our lives — both the failures to combat it, and the science that saved us.