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Christoph Niemann’s “Recipe for Disaster”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story News cycles, by nature, tend to document crises as discrete events. Suffusive emergencies—like the climate crisis—are captured mostly in the accelerating pace and frequency of such coverage. The increasing regularity of…

Feeling the Sting of Time with PJ Harvey

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since 1992, when she released “Dry,” her début album, PJ Harvey has made complex music that channels a primal, earthly energy. For me, her work has always conjured images of the…

What My Musical Instruments Have Taught Me

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Waves Only Get Real When They Break,” by Colin Farish (piano), Jaron Lanier (guzheng), and Jhaffur Khan (flute).   It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy…

Time-Travelling with My Father

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Can You Save One Species by Annoying Another?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The scientist Tim Shields, who, in his field work, had been finding an ever-increasing number of dead tortoises, says that he grew frustrated with merely “taking notes on the catastrophe.” A…