Nathaniel Rich
@NathanielRich
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@mcdbooks, @nytmag, @nybooks SECOND NATURE: https://t.co/zgo66kNfDy LOSING EARTH: https://t.co/eaWhbylxU1 https://t.co/xU7Fj3GyH8…
New Orleans
Joined March 2012
Dumping on the Kardashians:
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Calabasas residents thought it would be easy to keep wildfire ash from being trucked to their local landfill. They were wrong.
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On Krasznahorkai for @TheAtlantic (2018):
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Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai writes fiction devoid of revelation, resolution, and even periods.
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On the most polluted stretch of Cancer Alley, on the fenced-off grounds of a former plantation uninhabited for half a century, a forest has grown. I trespassed for @believermag
"You will not find Forest Denka on any map—or any other place... But Forest Denka is real: 420 acres of pristine wilderness in Reserve, Louisiana, forty minutes upriver from New Orleans." Nathaniel Rich on a strip of forest bordering a neoprene plant. https://t.co/J3JJ6muEiR
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“Over time Percival Lowell noticed ever more channels [on Mars], often in parallel tracks. This became a pattern: the more people stared at Mars, the more they saw.” —@NathanielRich
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Percival Lowell was convinced that he had found proof of life on Mars, but his real achievement was to make Americans dream of a future there.
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Nathaniel Rich (@NathanielRich) on the man who made Americans dream of life on Mars
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Percival Lowell was convinced that he had found proof of life on Mars, but his real achievement was to make Americans dream of a future there.
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Our 9/25 issue is now online, with Trevor Jackson on “abundance,” Ruth Yeazell on Jane Austen, @mrkocnnll on war profiteering 2.0, Lorrie Moore on Miriam Toews, Linda Greenhouse on abortion, @NathanielRich on Mars, @KAnthonyAppiah on free speech, & more
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On Richard Misrach's photographs of Katrina:
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The jarring juxtapositions in Richard Misrach’s photographs of New Orleans whiplash the viewer between bleak slapstick and horror.
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Our fall issue is coming! We have essays by @heatherchristle, Oliver Egger, and Ash Sanders; interviews with Laura van den Berg, @BlondieOfficial, and @RichardAyoade, conducted by @rokwon, Emma Ingrisani, and Wallace Shawn; poetry, reviews, a column by @NathanielRich, and more.
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Nathaniel Rich (@NathanielRich) on the Swiss writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and the menace of mountains
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If forced to distill the modern environmental movement to a single credo, one would be hard-pressed to improve on “Think like a mountain.” The phrase, now
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On Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss mountain lord: https://t.co/fBWmYByoqZ via @nybooks
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If forced to distill the modern environmental movement to a single credo, one would be hard-pressed to improve on “Think like a mountain.” The phrase, now
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Nice to see that @DarkWatersMovie is now streaming on Peacock: @Taftlaw @MarkRuffalo @TimRobbins1 @mariosity @FocusFeatures
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Thanks to @MarkRuffalo and @NathanielRich and the whole team helping to bring this new film to the public: @Taftlaw #PFAS #foreverchemicals
On Feb. 27, Taft partner @RobertBilott and actor Mark Ruffalo attended the U.S. premiere of “How to Poison a Planet” at the @svatheatre in Manhattan. Learn more about the event and documentary here: https://t.co/TwuJJdAHJj
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Looking forward to the US release of this iKandy Films production on 2/27 with the latest chapter in the #PFAS #foreverchemiclas saga produced by Janine Hosking, Katrina McGowan and Matt Cornwell and the upcoming panel discussion with my co-counsel Gary Douglas and Ned McWilliams
Taft partner @RobertBilott will be featured in “How to Poison a Planet” which will be released on Feb. 27. Learn more about the documentary and watch the trailer here: https://t.co/p0OSkyxNNg To buy tickets for the New York premiere: https://t.co/o3htjsaJ0g
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New Orleans, City of the Future:
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Unlike the other major cities that appear on lists of unsafe places, New Orleans has a striking competitive advantage.
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Part one of the series, in case you missed it: Diane Wilson's moving, elegiac "Natural Succession" @Orion_Magazine
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Future Imperfect Part 1: Diane Wilson travels to Costa Rica and discovers another side of ecosystem restoration
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Proud to present part two of @Orion_Magazine's four-part series on climate derangement, Future Imperfect: @mrosengaard's beautiful story about the last fisherman of Øresund
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Orion is proud to present a new four-part series, Future Imperfect, dedicated to the crises we’ve inherited and the uneasy compromises they’ve forced upon us.
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BREAKING: Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments in schools is unconstitutional, judge rules
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Louisiana's new law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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