Klima Literatur

If human agency is at the center of climate change, then is *every* novel a climate novel?

It’s instructive to try to explain a complicated thing in not-so-complicated terms, as my family reminds me every time I send out this substack. 

One way to learn is to try explaining things in a foreign language.

A few weeks ago I found myself giving a presentation on “Klima Literatur” to the rest of  my Deutschkurs, where I was stuck with the halting s…