HEAT WEEK
We’re sharing dispatches from a world on fire. This is a gathering of leading writers, thinkers, and artists reflecting on heat as sensation, symbol, and scientific reality. Heat Week is life at the boiling point.
Lucy Sante: A Thousand Julys
Summer only remembers luxury and rage.
Precious Shadows
Bill McKibben on shade's fragile mercy.
Picture This: Hot Bodies
To be alive is to radiate according to a universal law.
Emily Raboteau Among the Ruins
Heat won't show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame.
Edge of Paradise
In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.
Climate Hacks
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.
Motion, Not Matter
The discoveries that revealed heat's cosmic truth.
Tentacle Memory
When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.
Lethal Comforts
Air-conditioning, Jeff Goodell reminds us, is a technology of forgetting.
Becoming Subtropical
How do you categorize a crisis?
Every Apocalypse Before
Third trimester ablaze.
Heat Maps in Time
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro old and new ways of knowing and showing how our planet is changing.
The Land Keeps the Score
Indigenous knowledge holds lessons for a sustainable future.
