What If We Stopped Pretending?

What If We Stopped Pretending?

The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. “There is infinite hope,” Kafka tells us, “only not for us.” This is a fittingly mystical epigram from a writer whose characters strive for ostensibly reachable goals and,...
The Essay In Dark Times

The Essay In Dark Times

Is it too late to save the world? Jonathan Franzen on one year of Trump’s America ‘As the ice shelves crumble and the Twitter president threatens to pull out of the Paris accord’, Franzen reflects on the role of the writer in times of crisis If an essay is...