Endless Ice

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea.

The In-Between of Environmental Crisis

Two recent essay collections explore the interplay between literary genre and a rapidly changing planet.

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