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Global dystopias

Science & Nature

The Seed Vault Flooding Is Only the Start of Our Problems

Biodiversity should be maintained by using it, not by storing it under ice.

Jack Heinemann

Literature & Culture

Radicalism Begins in the Body

Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.”

Junot Díaz, Samuel R. Delany

Literature & Culture

Ash Wednesday

“I’m known as a sex radical, but the fact is I felt there was a world of experience that had been slipping away.”

Samuel R. Delany

Literature & Culture

Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia

A new biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.

John Crowley

Literature & Culture

Writing at the End of the World

Celebrated dystopian novelist Paul Kingsnorth talks surviving the collapse of civilization as we know it.

Paul Kingsnorth, Peter Ross

Podcast

Global Dystopias, Critical Dystopias: A Podcast with Junot Díaz

Our critique of the present is essential to producing a future. 

Junot Díaz

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