Sometimes the link between environmental issues and creative action is a matter of personal expression. In “One Woman’s Waste Is Another Woman’s Treasure,” Regina M. Bichler, a waste and sustainability researcher, interviews the artist Kim Curtis on using environmental struggles and successes as artistic inspiration. Their conversation spans Curtis’s multimedia artworks, political strategies for minimizing environmental harms, and the roles that individuals must play in crafting ecological futures.

In “Mapped Futures, Vanishing Places,” literary scholar Kumiko Kiuchi portrays the simple act of walking as an opportunity to inherit shared memory. Her writing takes off from Tokyo’s artificial waterfront into a creative space stretching from past generations into imagined futures, reminding us to remain “attentive to what cannot be fully possessed or understood.”

Full article titled “To Delight and Misinstruct: Strategic Environmental Narratives in New Yorker Fiction” by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Christopher A. Walker, Veronica Romero, Kiara McCellon, Claire Campbell, Moya Stringer, et al.

A reflection on how environmental history emerged in Sweden.