Lawrence Wright: The Plague Year

<div>In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is one of America's foremost magazine journalists, the <em>New Yorker</em>'s Lawrence Wright. His new book is <em>The Plague Year: America In The Time of Covid</em>. He tells me what a book brings to recent history that week-to-week journalism can't, about the extraordinary happenstance that put him in contact with one of the unsung heroes of the vaccine race, and the three reasons Covid was such a catastrophe for the US.</div>