We learn early that children mark the hope of the species. But what if women stopped conceiving? How would a world look without hope? *** In ‘Children…
Primordial. Deadly by nature. Unsuspected. Relentless. And, preferably, repulsive. That’s how I like my horror-movie threats. The jellyfish, 550 million years old, has of late taken over vast regions of…
Says Gary Greenberg in an excellent essay of current books on climate in the September Harper’s. ‘Incremental, technological rather than moral, and hidden in broad daylight, climate change is not…