In which we discuss the connection between boxing and environmental advocacy, Vanessa’s new book Earthly Bodies, the hidden ...

Our winter 2024, “Green Screen,” explores representations of nature in film—the ways, for better and worse, that we portray ...

That’s a 700 kroner fish (approximately $100), considering your cost of gas and netting.” In 2022, Danish fishermen caught ...

AT ONE POINT, between June and August 2019, Las Vegas had been so thoroughly inundated by a swarm of grasshoppers, an estimated thirty metric tons’ worth, that hotel employees on Fremont Street used ...

I THINK OFTEN OF an image by the artist David Wojnarowicz that I saw in a gallery years ago: a small, black-and-white photo of a swamp, the lights and darks reversed like a film negative. In the upper ...

What the film industry can do to aim for a greener future.

YOU FEEL LIKE A star yourself strolling in beneath that iconic marquee, settling into an overstuffed velvet seat. But let’s face it: what sets the cinema apart from streaming a film on your laptop is ...

On-screen in a windowless lecture hall, I see the scavenging of wild za’atar in the mountains for the first time. The only za’atar foragers I’ve encountered before were my parents, who harvested in ...

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How art we hate blooms into art we love.

THE FILM OPENS IN a bright blue confusion of bubbles and water, a pitching, chopping, frenzied, almost overpowering mass of crazy angles and influxes of light, as if Hokusai’s wave had crashed down ...

OBAACHAN, MY MOTHER’S mother, came of age in Nagoya, Japan, in the 1940s. Like me, Obaachan preferred the peace of her interior world to the chaos of everyday life. We could seldom get her to share ...