The Fall 2019 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Climate, is now on newsstands. With original essays by Lewis H. Lapham, Philipp Blom, Kyle Harper, Thomas Meaney, and Astra Taylor; Voices in Time contributions by Octavia E. Butler, Rachel Carson, Susan Fenimore Cooper, R. Buckminster Fuller, Loren Eiseley, Barry Lopez, Gabriel García Márquez, Ptolemy, Carl Sagan, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Greta Thunberg, David Wallace-Wells, and others; and art by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dorothea Lange, and others.
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INTRODUCTORY
Cover | Untitled light box from the ongoing project Holoscenes, in which performers are flooded by water, Lars Jan, 2014
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Current Events
Preamble | Lewis H. Lapham, Paying the Piper
VOICES IN TIME
Forecast
2013: Syracuse, NY | Robin Wall Kimmerer
1919: New York City | Carrier Engineering Corporation
c. 50 bc: Rome | Lucretius
1949: Paris | Fernand Braudel
c. 1188: England | Gerald of Wales
1892: Washington, DC | Mark Twain
2015: Washington, DC | James Inhofe
1972: Cambridge, MA | Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III
1536: Basel | John Calvin
1969: Philadelphia | Loren Eiseley
2026: Robledo, CA | Octavia E. Butler
1865: Washington, DC | Abraham Lincoln
c. 300 bc: Qi | Guanzi
1908: West Park, NY | John Burroughs
c. 944: Al-Fustat | Al-Masudi
1929: Kyoto | Watsuji Tetsuro
1865: London | Charles Dickens
2016: New York City | Amitav Ghosh
c. 2250 bc: Ur | Enheduanna
1992: Suffolk | W.G. Sebald
c. 400 bc: Greece | Hippocratic Corpus
1079: Fuyang | He Zhu
1980: Ithaca, NY | Carl Sagan
1733: London | John Arbuthnot
1958: Lomé | Tété-Michel Kpomassie
1748: La Brède | Montesquieu
2010: Davis, CA | Timothy Morton
Advisory
2019: London | Greta Thunberg
538: Ravenna | Cassiodorus
c. 1190 bc: Troy | William Shakespeare
1951: Silver Spring, MD | Rachel Carson
802,701: London | H.G. Wells
1956: Los Angeles | Aldous Huxley
c. 1690: Zichuan | Pu Songling
1971: Bear Island, ME | R. Buckminster Fuller
1864: Turin | George Perkins Marsh
1938: Moscow | Joseph Stalin
2009: Potomac, MD | Steve Milloy
c. 340 bc: Athens | Aristotle
1848: Cooperstown, NY | Susan Fenimore Cooper
2019: London | Katharine Viner
1975: Iyo | Masanobu Fukuoka
c. 160: Alexandria | Ptolemy
1910: Washington, DC | Henry Adams
1895: Stockholm | Svante Arrhenius
1981: Stonington, CT | Eleanor Perényi
c. 1240: Korea | Yi Kyubo
1931: New York City | Charles Fort
c. 1250: Iceland | Konungs Skuggsjá
1968: Golema Mmidi | Bessie Head
1379: Qalat ibn Salama | Ibn Khaldun
1867: London | Karl Marx
1935: New York City | Don Marquis
2019: Lane County, OR | Barry Lopez
Evacuation
2019: New York City | David Wallace-Wells
c. 8: Rome | Ovid
1978: La Crescenta, CA | John McPhee
1683: London | John Evelyn
2007: Tucson, AZ | Alan Weisman
c. 1925: Sacramento Valley | Kate Luckie
1348: Paris | Medical Faculty of the University of Paris
1857: Krishnapur | J.G. Farrell
c. 380 bc: Athens | Plato
1995: Port Harcourt | Ken Saro-Wiwa
c. 815: Lyon | Saint Agobard
c. 1960: Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA | Robinson Jeffers
1855: Paris | Eugène Huzar
2018: Harare | Tsitsi Dangarembga
1859: Sydney | William Stanley Jevons
1980: Pine Ridge Reservation | Russell Means
c. 400: India | Kalidasa
c. 1940: Kolyma | Varlam Shalamov
1785: Paris | Thomas Jefferson
c. 43,000 bc: Australia | Yuval Noah Harari
1935: Eva, OK | Caroline Henderson
163 bc: Chang’an | Emperor Wen
1958: Caracas | Gabriel García Márquez
1514: Florence | Leonardo da Vinci
2017: Paris | Bruno Latour
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
A Climate of Change | Philipp Blom
If the God Shall Not Send Rain | Thomas Meaney
Out of Time | Astra Taylor
In the Shadow of Caesar | Kyle Harper
Departments
Conversations | TripAdvisor, Hildegard of Bingen, Popol Vuh
Miscellany | Ark Encounter, Storm Terror, Exxon Memo
Glossary | Assart, Climatard, Penitent Ice
Sources | Readings & Art
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