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Plagues have been a plot staple throughout literary history, from the “Iliad” and the Bible to classics like Boccaccio’s “Decameron” and Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year.”

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2022

Plagues usually happen when rain follows several years of drought.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2021

"Absurd Planet" "Circus of Books" "El silencio del pantano" "The Plagues of Breslau" "The Willoughbys" "Win the Wilderness"

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2020

Plagues – or, to use a more modern term, epidemics of infectious disease – pluck at our most primal fears.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2020

Plagues of insects and consequent further agricultural disorders are a likely consequence of nuclear war.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan