There's something about flood, something mythic and disturbing, that gets to the heart of our uncertainty about our place on the earth at all.
Do visionaries – artists, writers, musicians, – have a responsibility to give us new languages and tools to actually do something about our deteriorating world? I asked. Artists David Bramwell, Justin Brice Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, Antony Gormley and Jonathan Meese, writers Jay Griffiths, Caspar Henderson, Dahr Jamail and Barry Lopez, poet Craig Santos Perez, philosopher Graham Harman, and scientist Peter Wadhams wrote me back.
Summer reading in the Sea Library has been sorted out. Here are books coming out in June, July and August. Outstanding octet!
and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago
