Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

"I picked up Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, by journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, with a degree of dread. Who wants to remain, even intellectually, in that claustrophobic place in which we slunk and mouldered our way through 2020 and 2021? But this book is not a hastily assembled response to the pandemic. Instead it’s a witty, charming consideration of one of our oldest and most effective responses to danger. I found it oddly comforting."