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L. M. Sacasas • What You Get Is the World
But the problem is not only that the human collective with its historical interconnectedness and its political potential is banished from the story. The nonhuman world is also banished to the background.
Elvia Wilk • Death by Landscape
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see; So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Andrew: The “this” being the poem itself, and by extension human culture, yes? Jamey: Yes. And the trouble with climate change is it says Fuck you! to all that. It says: you will no longer be able to exchange the cultural continuity of the human image for
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
ineluctable, and all the more aggravating in that, while forcing me to reconstruct entirely the personage of Bergotte, they
Marcel Proust • Within A Budding Grove: In Search of Lost Time #2
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
We understand the encoding of genetic sequences, the folding of proteins to construct the cells of the body, and even a good deal about how epigenetic switches control these processes. And yet we still do not understand what happens when we read a sentence. Meaning is not neuronal calculus in the brain, or the careful smudges of ink on a page, or
... See moreRay Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel
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Garth Greenwell • Small Rain
