Karl Taro Greenfeld

Karl Taro Greenfeld is a journalist, novelist, television writer and the author of, among other books, China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic.

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We May Never Know the Full Story of COVID-19

Grit plus luck was sufficient to break open the SARS story. I doubt the same will be true for COVID-19.
- Karl Taro Greenfeld
- October 20, 2020
Marzio Toniolo / Reuters

The Pattern That Epidemics Always Follow

First comes denial. Then panic.
- Karl Taro Greenfeld
- March 5, 2020
Chris Pizzello / Reuters

I Like My Agents—But I Fired Them Anyway

What will happen to me, a workaday writer, on the other side of the WGA mess?
- Karl Taro Greenfeld
- April 17, 2019
Eric Thayer / Reuters

California’s Apocalyptic Cycle

The state is often on the cutting edge. In fear and denial, too, we are leading the way.
- Karl Taro Greenfeld
- November 19, 2018
Charles Gullung

My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me

What happens when a father, alarmed by his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload, tries to do her homework for a week
- Karl Taro Greenfeld
- October 2013 Issue

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Karl Taro Greenfeld

We May Never Know the Full Story of COVID-19

The Pattern That Epidemics Always Follow

I Like My Agents—But I Fired Them Anyway

California’s Apocalyptic Cycle

My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me