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David Wallace-Wells

Science

Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End.

A bulletin from our climate future.

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Wallace-Wells on the Longform Podcast

David Wallace-Wells New York May 2019 40min Permalink

Science

Time to Panic

An essay on why fear may be the only thing that saves humanity from climate change.

David Wallace-Wells New York Times Feb 2019 15min Permalink

Best Article

Scenes From the Terrifying, Already Forgotten JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn’t

“There was no they.' There was not even a 'he,' no armed person turning on a crowd. But what happened at JFK last night was, in every respect but the violence, a mass shooting.”

David Wallace-Wells New York Aug 2016 15min Permalink

Arts

How Benjamin Kunkel Went From Novelist to Marxist Public Intellectual

“There was this brief moment when people who wrote blogs also cared about so-called literary fiction. Now it seems they’ve moved on. My doctor doesn’t give a fuck.”

David Wallace-Wells New York Mar 2014 15min Permalink