From the author of Losing Earth, a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing.
Nathaniel Rich is the author of Losing Earth: A Recent History, a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and a winner of awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physics. He is also the author of the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor's Tongue. He is a writer-at-large at The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Review of Books. Rich lives in New Orleans.
"[Second Nature is] an unwavering look at our increasingly
dystopian world . . . Rich presents humanity's war against nature
in vivid detail . . . Flowing and deeply researched prose paints
scene after scene of the ubiquitous entropy that is gaining
momentum . . . Rich manages to fluently and empathetically depict
in a digestible way the predicament in which we now find
ourselves."
--Dahr Jamail, The New York Times Book Review
"Nathaniel Rich's electric Second Nature . . . is a tour de force
examining the influence humans exert on the world . . . The reading
experience is by turns demoralizing and galvanizing, like most
worthwhile things."
--Vanity Fair "Rich's elegy to a planet he likens to a critical
care patient is lyrical, erudite, and devastating...[His]
investigation of "crimes against nature" and the people who are
trying to stop them is alarming, enlightening, and necessary."
--O Magazine
"The essays in Second Nature reveal important truths that gather
power when they are read together."
--Science "One of the singular pleasures of reading Nathaniel
Rich's Losing Earth is his ability to find and bring to life on the
page the women and men engaged in saving the planet. This skill is
not surprising, given that Rich is also an acclaimed novelist, but
it does help explain why he is so good at what he does, as amply
demonstrated in his latest book of nonfiction, Second Nature:
Scenes from a World Remade."
--Air Mail Interview "If Losing Earth was maddening (the only thing
worse than staring down the barrel of endless scorching summers,
soupy winters, and catastrophic wildfire seasons is knowing
politicians could've done something about it and didn't), Second
Nature is unsettling."
--Grist "[A] vividly reported survey . . . Frightening but with an
undercurrent of humor, Rich's study is packed with moving insight."
--Publishers Weekly
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