This essay focuses on a fleeting climate crisis event in Ling Ma’s 2018 novel Severance. For super smart critical work on Severance you should go to the Post-45 cluster on…
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“Of course, the world continues to end”: Weather and the Climate Crisis Ordinary
The sense of slow-motion apocalypse indexed in my title, spoken by a character in Jenny Offill’s 2020 novel Weather, resonates widely. In early 2020 — just a few weeks before…