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Good Advice For Environmentalists

Now I’m excited. Acclaimed British author Ian McEwan is one of my very favorite authors.  He is the author of, among others, ‘First Love, Last Rites’, ‘On Chesil Beach’ and ‘Atonement’ - adapted in...

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Long Live This Wounded Planet

Poetry as a literary art form is once again gaining popularity.  There is no shortage of poems addressing nature and Man’s interaction with it. I find this piece by Adrian Mitchell inspiring: William...

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Worth A Read – Ian McEwan’s “Solar”

In a previous post I mentioned that I was excited by the upcoming publication of a novel by Ian McEwan that was inspired by the issues of climate change.  Well, the book has arrived.  I have just...

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Does Activism Work –“Freedom”– a Novel by Jonathan Frantzen

It is encouraging to note that mainstream literature that has an environmental component is on the rise. ‘Freedom’ by Jonathan Frantzen has received widespread acclaim. ‘Freedom’ is not a novel about...

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Video: Ian McEwan talks about Solar

In previous posts I have reviewed Ian McEwan’s newest book “Solar“. Now, in this video, listen to the author himself talk about his book, its portrait of human failings and how it was reflected in the...

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Cultural Response To Climate Change – David Buckland and Cape Farewell

The creation, expansion and success of Cape Farewell maybe represents the most ambitious, most far-sighted and most successful effort to date to place the arts front and center in the debate about...

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Umberto Eco and the Gnomes of Gnú

“No doubt your civilization has some very interesting features: but if you bring it here we’ll loose our meadows, our trees, our rivers and we’ll be worse off. Would you mind not discovering us?” So...

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An Orange County Almanac – Collection of Essays

Language is one of our greatest art forms. Language is not only a tool of communication and persuasion but it is also a cognitive tool – saying things or writing about them helps us understand. This...

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