Both are accomplished thinkers in their own right: Manaugh is the creator of BLDGBLOG and author of A Burglar's Guide to the City Twilley is a New Yorker contributor and co-host of the podcast Gastropod.

Manaugh and Twilley, who are married, spoke with me over the phone from their home in Los Angeles. Along with carefully considering the spatial and temporal implications of the legacy of quarantine, the journalistic duo also looks toward the current pandemic to examine what we can learn to guide us in the future. Heavily researched and inquisitive, Until Proven Safe is an atypical travelogue of quarantine sites that includes the lazarettos of Croatia, the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre in London, and a radioactive waste depository in New Mexico. Rather, it tracks the historical evolution of quarantine, the origins of which date back to the 14th century. While Manaugh and TwilleyвЂ™s Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine (MCD) is a timely release well suited for our current moment, it is not a book dealing strictly with the present. Due to the global spread of COVID-19-the first cases of which were identified a few short months after the aforementioned lecture-the once obscure subject of quarantine has taken on new relevance. вЂњIf everyone at this event at some point in their life experiences quarantine, it wouldnвЂ™t be entirely surprising.вЂќ вЂњI would go out on a limb and say that we are entering the age of quarantine,вЂќ Manaugh said toward the end of the presentation. In August of 2019, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley gave a lecture in Moscow on the phenomenon of quarantine. The authors of Until Proven Safe on the ongoing pandemic, the history of quarantine, and our existential precarity.

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