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Nathaniel Rich is the esteemed novelist and essayist. Multiple works of his short fiction pieces have been finalists for honorable awards; “The Northeast Kingdom” and “Blue Rock” were finalists for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. Additionally, “Blue Rock” was awarded the 2017 Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction. His 2019 Losing Earth: A Recent History was long-listed for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence. Between 2005 and 2010, Nathaniel Rich served as Fiction Editor for the Paris Review.
A writer for The New York Times, Nathaniel Rich’s essays on literature have been regularly featured in the Atlantic and the New York Review of Books. Furthermore, Nathaniel’s essays have appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, Harper’s, and Men’s Journal in addition to several anthologies including Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Science and Nature Writing.
In 2005, he published a work of film criticism, San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present, which Martin Scorsese called “a fascinating work of criticism disguised as a guided tour around a great city.”
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One of the Los Angeles Times's 12 Best Books of Summer
A Chicago Tribune "Coolest Book of Summer"
"A rollicking good time . . . [A] spry, funny caper." —Colin Dwyer, NPR
Why settle for nothing, when you can steal everything?
Forget banks, casinos, museums—society’s most valuable treasure sits in th...
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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....
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By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their st...
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Paris Review Staff Pick
A January Pick by Salon, Town and Country, Southern Living, and LA Magazine
New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized c...
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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 firm that indemnifies corporations against potential disasters. As Mitchell immerses himself in the calculus of ...
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The virtues of the proposed Green New Deal: its purpose, its prospects, and its strategic goals
How, despite attacks from the right (and even from many politicians on the left) that call its aims utopian, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plan bears a striking resemblance to major, bipartisan climate bills proposed in Congress during the late 1980s—plans that at the time were hailed by members of both parties as pragmatic, necessary, and just.
The Sunrise Movement
The Sunrise Movement and the young leaders who have brought political momentum to the issue by speaking about the climate crisis in a new way: as not merely a political and environmental crisis but as a moral crisis.
Moral Argument
How this moral argument developed, from pleas by island nations in the late 1980s to a new articulation by Pope Francis and the Catholic Church, and now embraced by youth climate movements all over the world.
Our World
Why one environmental campaign (to “fix” the ozone layer in the 1980s) was wildly successful, while the current, more generalized call to combat climate change has tended to overwhelm voters or lead to apathy and inaction. What it will take for human beings to act on climate change, now that there are real technical solutions—how it is not enough for voters simply to favor action, but how it must become the main priority. How this can be achieved. Why the economics of climate change fail to motivate politicians to act. The intellectual debate, little known outside of academic circles until now, among political theorists, over how much value human beings assign to the future.
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“New Orleans’ Striking Advantage in the Age of Climate Change”
“Nathaniel Rich on Storytelling and the Climate Crisis”
“Destroying a Way of Life to Save Louisiana”
Losing Earth named as a finalist for the 2020 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
Losing Earth was long-listed for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence.
“17 Writers on the Role of Fiction in Addressing Climate Change”
“Nathaniel Rich’s ‘Losing Earth’ tells lost history of our current climate predicament”
“Nathaniel Rich on How the Consensus on Global Warming Was Lost”
“‘Losing Earth:’ Nathaniel Rich on Humanity’s Failure to Address Climate Change”
“‘Losing Earth’ Explores How Oil Industry Played Politics With The Planet’s Fate”
Nathaniel Rich was interviewed on WWNO’s The Reading Life. Atlantic Journal Constitution featured Losing Earth in their round-up of “10 Southern Books We Want to Read in 2019.”
New Orlean’s The Advocate ran an interview with Nathaniel Rich.
Visit Nathaniel Rich’s personal website.
Praise for Losing Earth
“Rich’s righteous rhetoric, supported by a command of the facts, has a sharpness comparable to Thomas Paine’s pamphlets arguing the case for U.S. independence from England.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution“Exceedingly well-written . . . a must-read handbook for everyone concerned about our planet’s future . . . Losing Earth is eloquent, devastating, and crucial.”
—Booklist starred review“Reading like a Greek tragedy, Losing Earth shows how close we came to making the right choices—if it weren’t for our darker angels.”
—NPR.org“[A] gripping, depressing, revelatory book . . . Climate change is a tragedy, but Rich makes clear that it is also a crime—a thing that bad people knowingly made worse, for their personal gain.”
—John Lanchester, The New York Times Book Review“Rich narrates his fable with the bite and flair of a seasoned journalist . . . Losing Earth beautifully underscores what it would mean to lose our Earth, but also plots a few steps—wobbly, tentative—toward saving it.”
—Chapter 16“An eloquent science history, and an urgent eleventh-hour call to save what can be saved.”
—Nature
