Contemporary speculative fiction and historical works depicting epidemics surged in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, including Ling Ma's Severance, Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.
Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, set amid the Black Death in the 14th century, experienced a resurgence in interest during the pandemic, with virtual book clubs forming and projects like The Decameron Project being commissioned by The New York Times.
There's a consensus that The Decameron illustrates the power of storytelling to uplift humanity during crises. However, Kathleen Jordan's interpretation in Netflix's The Decameron poses a different view; suggesting the book's true message is the perennial nature of privilege transcending times of calamity.
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