thebmag, “Another Nuclear Winter,” Dogern, Germany, December 3, 2005 German writers are tackling the complex question of writing the environment in diverse narrative forms that provide…

Illustration: Heidi Tailleferr First and foremost, we focus on the comfort of our clients.” “And what aspects of your operations are oriented toward that goal?…

An aerial view of hydraulic fracturing in progress at Jonah Field in Wyoming. Photo: Bruce Gordon / Ecoflight The growth of hydraulic fracturing has inspired a subgenre of dystopian novels envisi…

Photo: YSBRANDCOSIJN / 123rf stock photo Who needs confusing laws and bothersome committees when you have an autocrat writing principles for every aspect of your life?  He was not tall or br…

Yoss. Photo: Restless Books When we were together in Cuba in early 2015, I took a photo of Yoss tenderly holding a kitten we encountered in Old Havana. When I later asked him about life during Cuba’s…

Photo: www.flickr.com/people/fineplan When you are a pestilent being the world stops being pestilent. Or does it? Each night Rafa stares at the vestibule in hatred until those in li…

Michelle Pretorius It’s 2010 in Unie, South Africa, and Constable Alet Berg is in search of her rise from disgrace. Banished from Jo’burg’s Special Forces Unit to a rural community, Berg finds hersel…

Photo: Susanna Hsing Rhythm Lucretius’s atomic rain falls graduallyabove daily congestion, wetting my earlobes with noise.I’ve swallowed the good parts of several dropssleepy dissonance. On one side,…

Marcus Jansen, When the Cowboys Came, 2012, mixed media on canvas. llustration: Artist Rights Society, (ARS) New York   VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn   Courtesy: Unit A Studio and Residency Dystop…