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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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2nd Look

Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie

by James McWilliams

Cutting back on screen time may be an especially popular resolution this January, as pandemic-forced isolation led many of us to be even more closely glued to our phones and laptops. “We don’t want to be enslaved to a device. We want to regain a measure of control,” writes James McWilliams in this 2016 piece. “Doing so will require something you might not expect—courting exactly the experience that digital life promises to end: stress.”

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