“No good opera plot can be sensible,” admitted W. H. Auden—a man with five opera libretti to his name—“for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” It is true that... Read more »
“Green, at this point, is a dead fucking brand,” says Kate Morris, the brash and irreverent political organizer at the center of Stephen Markley’s The Deluge. “Green,” for Morris, is traditional environmentalism,... Read more »
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month. The post On Our Nightstands: March 2025 appeared first on Public Books. Source link Read more »
Bill McKibben proclaimed nature’s demise in 1989. But Americans who cared about DDT’s poisonous effect and the extinctions that would follow had been warned almost three decades earlier. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring... Read more »