"Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline, taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo." --Margaret Atwood "Compendium, cornucopia, COVID-19! At once a reference and a sketchbook, Pandexicon helps us to see more clearly the ways the recent pandemic has changed both ourselves and our language." -- Vincent Lam, author of Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures "I've been waiting for a book like this to come out and Wayne got there first. Is it jinxing things to say it's over? Maybe this is only Volume One." --Douglas Coupland " Pandexicon could be our first real monument to the Covid-19 years--an erudite work of memory that brings together language, history, and data so powerfully you might even experience nostalgia. In the battle over the words we used to make meaning of the pandemic, Wayne Grady emerges victorious." -- J.B.

MacKinnon "This is so much more than a lexicon or dictionary. Grady has given us a travelogue documenting our journey through the rough seas of the pandemic, examining the words we have used to talk about the contradictory cross-currents of jokes, opinions, laboratory data, heart-breaking personal anecdotes, and political rants." --David Waltner-Toews, author of On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus.