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This Is Not a Rehearsal – Hala Alyan
Season 8
Self-quarantined and isolated in her apartment in Brooklyn, Hala Alyan is more aware than ever of humanity’s interdependence—suddenly expose…
5 years, 10 months ago
I Am Not Your Peril – Lisa Lee Herrick
Season 8
In the wake of COVID-19, Lisa Lee Herrick challenges the resurgence of dangerous historical frames of race and belonging.
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5 years, 10 months ago
In the Ground of Our Unknowing – David Abram
Season 8
Facing the paradoxes and ambiguities enmeshed with the COVID-19 pandemic, David Abram finds beauty in the midst of shuddering terror. As we’…
5 years, 11 months ago
What Difference Does a Day Make? Earth Day at Fifty – Paul Elie
Season 8
Paul Elie is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Reinventing Bach and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. As part of o…
5 years, 11 months ago
Among the Trees – Carl Phillips
Season 7
In this extended meditation on the relationship between place and intimacy, the body and the word, Carl Phillips walks among trees to explor…
5 years, 11 months ago
The Poet and the Palm Tree – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Season 7
The poet W.S. Merwin spent the last four decades of his life on Maui, restoring a plot of abandoned land that would become one of the most d…
6 years ago
Shaking the Viral Tree – a conversation with David Quammen
Season 7
In this interview, science writer David Quammen, author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, speaks about the root c…
6 years ago
Woods Work – William Bryant Logan
Season 7
After visiting a two-thousand-year-old Linden tree in England, William Bryant Logan explores the nearly forgotten practice of coppicing, or …
6 years ago
One Hundred and Eleven Trees – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Season 7
When a marble mine began to strip a village of its forests, the people of Piplantri, India, developed a tree-planting project that reclaims …
6 years ago
On Survival: the Dead, the Sapling, and the Ancients – Lauren E. Oakes
Season 7
In this narrated essay, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes looks beyond the scientific lens of subject-object while studying the consequences of clim…
6 years ago