Life goes on, even in a dystopia. In Covid-19 times and in other historical and fictional dystopian situations when the world is on the threshold of going haywire, mundane minutiae, so undermined and mocked in "normal" times, assume a life-giving status. This book is fed by that moody, sceptical life-force and itself attests to how the soundscape of dystopian reality is also replete with the sibilance of human resilience. The darkest images—nightmare-driven, despair-riven—yield the sweetness of hope partly through the sincere analysis and commitment of the contributors and partly through the abundance of light in their articulation of anger, suffering, and the joys of memory. A frontier document in the face of the unprecedented world-wide contagion of Covid-19, with stellar contributors from three continents, this book looks at literary communities, art, medicine, demography, economics, and history with tenacity, concern, and awe.