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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is the author of The Circle of Reason, In an Antique Land, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire.

Writing the Unimaginable

Writing the Unimaginable

When future generations look back at the fiction of our time, what will they make of the failure to address the crisis of climate change?

by Amitav Ghosh | Tuesday, September 06, 2016

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I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind

by Joan Didion

In this Autumn 1964 essay, the late Joan Didion takes the Hollywood film industry to task: “One problem is that American directors, with a handful of notable exceptions, are not much interested in style; they are at heart didactic,” she writes. “Ask what they plan to do with their absolute freedom, with their chance to make a personal statement, and they will pick an ‘issue,’ a ‘problem.’”

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