THE HOTEL WHERE I was staying, Villa Amazônia, was constructed in 1907, around the time the movie takes place. It had been a private residence, and many elements of the original building remain. It ...

GEOGRAPHERS EMPLOY THE poetically evocative term “Pole of Inaccessibility” to describe the most geographically remote location, the place that lies farthest from the edge. On land, a pole of ...

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IN MY BACKYARD, I have a makeshift pond: a galvanized steel tub, about two feet in diameter, outfitted with an electric ...

So much of today’s climate storytelling recounts the awe-inducing extraordinary: rampant wildfires, uncategorizable hurricanes, disastrously high tides, and deadly heat waves. But overshadowed in ...

I THINK OFTEN OF an image by the artist David Wojnarowicz that I saw in a gallery years ago: a small, black-and-white photo of a swamp, the lights and darks reversed like a film negative. In the upper ...

THIS PAST FALL, DreamWorks Animation released The Wild Robot, an animated feature film adapted from Peter Brown’s bestselling young adult book series. It follows a robot named Rozzum 7134 shipwrecked ...

One of many inaccurate notes in my father’s sleep study interview, conducted three years before his Parkinsonian syndrome/Lewy body dementia diagnoses and five years before his death ...

"The light across the county is flat as a cow’s milk-dead eye." ...

OUTSIDE, IT’S BEGUN to rain. But inside Dramaten’s small-stage theater, the scene is electric. The low-ceilinged lobby is crammed with the wool-clad shoulders of theater professionals, young climate ...