Weather Archives - The American Scholar

Blue Moons and Buttermilk Skies

By William Zinsser | 10/13/2017 |

American songwriters knew that weather was a state of mind

Writing the Unimaginable

By Amitav Ghosh | 09/06/2016 |

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?

Dark and Windy Night

By Jennifer Henderson | 12/10/2014 |

Deep Trouble

By Emily Bernard | 06/03/2011

How a natural disaster barreled into a historical one