Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how…
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How to Embrace a Wildfire: A Path Out of the Smoke
As wildfires burned across Canada and smoke traveled at the end of May and the start of June this year,…
South Africa: Living in a Future Way Ahead of Our Time
The human capacity for oxymoronic optimism will literally take your breath away if you’re among the millions living downwind from…
Is the World Enough? – Public Books
It was 1968, and the “battle to feed all of humanity” had already been lost. In the coming 1970s, soaring…
Eating Out in the Apocalypse
In a future of world-devastating smog—not to mention fires, xenophobia, pandemics, and famine—an unnamed chef struggles to build a restaurant…
Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song
“What matters to me is fidelity to something else entirely, which is how human beings are and how human beings…
Public Thinker: Infrastructure Tells Us That We Need One Another
Deb Chachra is a professor of engineering at Olin College with expertise in materials science, equity and inclusivity in STEM,…
Planetary Alchemy, or, Learning to Read the Earth with “Zelda”
I dive from a floating island, a hunk of granite suspended in the sky, drenched in golden sunlight, green and…
The Climate Is Changing. How Should the Liberal Arts Respond?
Like that of the earth, the climate of higher education today is increasingly volatile, and the seasonal rhythms that once…
Our Last Supper – Public Books
We readers of Mathias Énard’s The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild know something that the novel’s protagonist could not:…