BOOK REVIEW: Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of the Coronavirus

By Nicholas A. Christakis. Little Brown Spark, New York. Hardcover, 368 pp with notes and index. US$29

In March of 2020, a Belgian seismologist named Thomas Lecocq at the Royal Observatory near Brussels noticed that the earth had suddenly gone still. As seismologists around the world began to share data, they discovered that they could detect the rushing of rivers and the crashing of ocean waves. Without the noise of cars and factories and the myriad mov…