Posts about invented worlds

Last summer I wrote an essay about whether climate warming will cause the extinction of the human species, so when I came across an article by Lucy Jakub on[…]

I have always loved Geoffrey Chaucer’s send off to Troilus and Criseyde:  “Go, lytl book, go, litel myn tragedye” (go little book, go my little tragedy). […]

March hares and moon rabbits are animals  that strike archetypal chords within us, which is exactly why we respond to Miss Piggy.

This picture shows the island villages of the Ma’dan, Iraqi fisher-hunter-gatherers whose self-sufficient wetlands Saddam Hussein drained. Kenneth Posner’s “The Long Brown Path: The Cry of the Anarcho-Primitivists,”[…]

  When a schooner shifts and then tacks into the wind, heeling steeply, how does it feel down below?