Katherine Anne Porter

The literature that arose from the influenza pandemic speaks to our current moment in profound ways, offering connections in the exact realms where art excels.

Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider’ tells the tale of a pandemic she barely survived.

A new book suggests that the plague’s horrors haunt modernist literature between the lines.

Sure, it came on the heels of World War I, but it was way more deadly.

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.

Until the Covid-19 pandemic, the catastrophe of the Spanish flu had been dropped from American memory.