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The Church Forests of Ethiopia – Fred Bahnson
Season 7
Nearly all of Ethiopia’s original trees have disappeared, but small pockets of old-growth forest still surround Ethiopia’s churches, living …
6 years ago
Dead Wood – Nick Hunt
Season 7
Nick Hunt visits Białowieża, Europe’s largest surviving primeval forest, where life and death transform into one another with vigorous entan…
6 years, 1 month ago
Felling Light – Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Season 7
In this essay, Amaud Jamaul Johnson returns to his poem “The Maple Remains” for the centennial anniversary of the Red Summer of 1919. Throug…
6 years, 1 month ago
Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree – David G. Haskell
Season 7
In this multi-sensory essay, David George Haskell invites us into the unique, and sometimes surprising, aromas of eleven different species o…
6 years, 1 month ago
Consciousness, Kinship, and Community – a conversation with Richard Powers
Season 7
In this extensive interview, Richard Powers discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory and his intention to tell a story in w…
6 years, 1 month ago
On Time and Water – a conversation with Andri Snær Magnason
Season 6
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary filmmaker. In this interview, Andri discusses his new book On Time and Water and …
6 years, 3 months ago
A Radical Reimagining of the Novel with Richard Powers and Forrest Gander
In this vibrant conversation, poet and author Forrest Gander interviews Richard Powers about his acclaimed new novel The Overstory. Recorded…
6 years, 4 months ago
Reseeding the Food System – Rowen White
Season 6
Rowen White is a Seed Keeper from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and an activist for seed sovereignty. In this in-depth interview, Rowen …
6 years, 4 months ago
The Pull of the Sky — Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Season 1
In this narrated essay from our first issue on Perspective, medievalist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen examines the history of our attraction to see E…
6 years, 5 months ago
Tending Soil — Emma Marris
Season 6
From her own backyard compost pile in Oregon to the dark earths of the Amazon and Liberia, Emma Marris explores the possibility that there i…
6 years, 5 months ago