“There is zero spontaneity in life.” Jhumpa Lahiri is telling me about her disorienting return to work at Princeton University, where the acclaimed writer is director and professor of creative writing. “We teach everything online, which is strange and frustrating and exhausting. We have no choice.”
A weekly coronavirus test is mandatory for anyone spending more than eight hours on campus, in New Jersey, in the United States. Lahiri can’t go anywhere without being checked in and out. “They want to know exactly where you have been sitting,” she says.
