A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Paris Review Staff PickA January Pick by Salon, Town and Country, Southern Living, and LA MagazineNew Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The...

'This deeply researched, deeply felt book is an essential addition to the canon of climate change literature. Others have documented where we are, and speculated about where we might be headed, but the story of how we got here is perhaps...

'Hugely readable . . . King Zeno would make a great Netflix series, a murky pre-Prohibition thriller poised somewhere between LA Confidential and True Detective.' New Statesman New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an...

New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. A brilliant mathematician, he spends his days calculating worst-case scenarios for FutureWorld, a consulting...

'Nathaniel Rich's account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn't want to.' ObserverBy 1979, we knew all that we know...

"Losing Earth: A Recent History" von Nathaniel Rich ist ein Sachbuch, das die Geschichte der Klimapolitik und des Umweltbewusstseins zwischen 1979 und 1989 untersucht. In dieser entscheidenden Dekade wurden viele der wissenschaftlichen...

All cities have their secrets, but none are so dark as San Francisco's, the city that Ambrose Bierce famously described as "a point upon a map of fog." With its reputation as a shadowy land of easy vice and hard virtue, San Francisco...

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.We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential...

Second Nature von Rich, Nathaniel