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“Step Away”
Kata Beilin’s short story narrates of a scholar’s Amazonian journey, which awakens her from ambition’s illusion to the deeper truth of the interbeing in the forest.
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“Ecocomics: Vivid Worlds in Images and Text”
The essay acquaints readers with an ecocritical approach to comics by close reading three recent “ecocomics” with an emphasis on thematic and formal features.
Arcadia
Turning Ash into Gold: The 1783 Mount Asama Eruption and the Tenmei Famine in Early Modern Japanese Satire
The 1783 Mount Asama eruption and the Tenmei Famine were reimagined through humor in early modern Japanese satire, revealing a world where rice, not riches, defined survival.
Perspectives Article
Rachel Carson's Daughter
Joan Maloof contrasts her father’s defense of DDT with her embrace of Rachel Carson’s message in Silent Spring, highlighting the personal and generational tensions surrounding pesticide use and environmental responsibility.
Perspectives Article
Saint Rachel
Christof Mauch highlights the global and enduring influence of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, emphasizing her prophetic style and lasting impact on worldwide environmental thought and action.
Perspectives Article
Rachel Carson Scholarship—Where Next?
Maril Hazlett calls for a more critical and nuanced reassessment of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, examining both its impact and its limitations in reaching diverse sectors of society.
Perspectives Article
Stop Saving the Planet!—and Other Tips via Rachel Carson for Twenty-First-Century Environmentalists
Jenny Price critiques Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring for reinforcing a human–nature divide that shifted environmental responsibility onto individuals while obscuring systemic and institutional accountability.
Perspectives Article
Reading Silent Spring as a Challenge for Contemporary Environmentalism
Lawrence Culver argues that no book has matched the impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and urges modern environmentalists to emulate her clear, compelling communication to reach broad audiences.
Perspectives Article
A Fable for Bloomington
Lisa Sideris uses the unusually warm 2012 spring in Bloomington to highlight public complacency toward climate change, echoing themes from Silent Spring.
Perspectives Article
Rachel Carson and an Ecological View on Health
Nancy Langston reinterprets Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to argue that ecological and human health are inseparable, urging renewed responsibility toward chemical safety and environmental stewardship.