“Woodlands of the Mind” explores fifteen hidden university forests and the fragile histories that allow them to endure.
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Michael Thomas Gaffney is a conservationist and writer based in Western North Carolina. He holds a dual MEM/PhD from Duke University, where he studied landscape ecology and environmental humanities. In addition to book reviews, Michael writes essays about climate change, ecology, and the history of environmental thought. Some of his writing can be found in Cold Mountain Review, Science Fiction Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
Cults, Climate Crisis, and Community in Delaney Nolan’s “Happy Bad”
What would have felt, twenty years ago, like a fairly extreme climate apocalypse novel reads like tomorrow’s news, or even yesterday’s.
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