Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

Christakis wrote this in the first year of COVID-19 and the speed does not damage the depth — he draws on network science, epidemiology, and social history to argue that pandemics are not interruptions to society but revelations of it. What broke was already broken. What held had been quietly maintained. A work of real-time social science that will endure as a document of a civilisation at its limits.