Anna Badkhen is the author of six books. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is at work on An Anatomy of Lostness.
Anna Badkhen was researching Eden – the origins of humanity in the Afar Triangle of East Africa – when coronavirus broke out across the world.
‘The sea is broken,’ they say. An empty net at night: a drooping lattice of shiny nothingness, a cold and worthless tinsel mesh.
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