Climate Change
“We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what’s coming.”
You either go full Hollywood CGI, or you pare it down to the poetry of it.
This encouraging book highlights the preponderance of positive developments regarding the efforts, worldwide, to deal with climate change.
For a light-hearted take on some serious issues, “Waiting for Al Gore” delivers.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
The album isn’t a dull listen because it hammers home the high anxiety that many are feeling, particularly in California, land of the forever drought and endless forest fires.
Personable but bracing, Sea Sick delivers an essential message: not only about the damage that is being done to the oceans, but the horrors that are coming down the pike.
The world of Harrow is a Mad Max dystopia for intellectuals. It’s Bladerunner without the tech.
Martin Puchner is stumped because what is called for is a genuinely radical rethink about what role literature and literary studies should play in avoiding the global meltdown to come.
Book Review: “The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon” — A New Chapter in the American Story?
What a cruel hoax: the middle class suburban lifestyle, a proud achievement of postwar America and the envy of peoples throughout the world (in no small part due to Mad Men glamorization), contains the very seeds of our demise. If demise is where this is heading.
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