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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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Plunging to Earth

by Robert Zaretsky

Still dreaming up ways to safely enjoy this year’s summer vacation? “Safe” may be a relative term here—but if you’re feeling brave, you could take up skydiving, as Robert Zaretsky once did. “As I fell,” he wrote in our Summer 2011 issue, “I blurted out—like so many others have, I later learned—‘Mommy!’”

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