This article argues for the term “uncanny water” as a conceptual tool for reading contemporary oceanic fictions.

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Péter Makai.

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Jared Margulies.

We know where trees grow, but what about ideas? Writer and literary scholar Samantha Walton used to think of research centers as static offices and corridors, hubs for ideas to cluster and sprout. But at the Landhaus, an eco-farm in Bavaria, it is on walks with other fellows where their “thoughts strung out like threads across the paths” they traversed together.