Nuclear and Environmental
Henry Fountain, “An Extraordinary Iceberg Is Gone, but Not Forgotten.”
Jacob Blumenfeld, “Climate Barbarism: Adapting to a Wrong World.”
Joshua Rothman, “Can Science Fiction Wake Us Up to Our Climate Reality?”
Ukraine
The New York Times, “Moscow Is Pessimistic about Reaching Accord with US on Ukraine, but Talk Continues.”
Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper, “US Battles Putin by Disclosing His Next Possible Moves.”
And Max Fisher, “On Ukraine, US, and Russia Wage Signaling War to Avert Actual War.”
Coronavirus
Apoorva Mandavilli, “Yes, Omicron Is Loosening Its Hold. But the Pandemic Has Not Ended.”
Steven Kurutz, “Too Young to Feel So Old.”
Alexander Provan, “The Great Equalizer” (from June 2020).
This spring semester at Hartwick College, I’m teaching two classes, ENGL 213 Introduction to Creative Writing, as usual, and a brand new course, ENGL 352 Critical Game Studies. I’m especially excited about the latter, as this was a course I developed at the University of Pittsburgh in AY 2015-16 with the aid of a course development grant but that I have not had a chance to teach until now.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 