Meera Subramanian is an award-winning independent journalist and author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, a 2016 Orion Book Award finalist. She has been a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT, a Fulbright-Nehru fellow in India, and a visiting professor at Princeton University, but her current home is on a glacial moraine on the edge of the Atlantic. You can find her at www.meerasub.org.
Meera Subramanian
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A Pointed Angle
I HAVE OBSESSED over a letter that has lingered in my mother’s family for a good long while. It was written by a young mapmaker from his convalescent bed in Austin, Continue reading
Off the Map
Map of Echoes
THE LAB TECH wheels in her ultrasound machine as I lie in the hospital bed, ready to bare my chest. The hope is to know why, yesterday, my heart throttled up Continue reading
Off the Map
The Cartography We Can’t See
How might we draw on the maps of our imaginations to create a world we want to inhabit? Continue reading
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Review: Bewilderment by Richard Powers
“I T IS NO MEASURE of health to be well adjusted,” goes the oft quoted but unverifiable aphorism from the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti, “to a profoundly sick society.” Richard Powers’s new Continue reading
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The Nature of Plastics
Pull a synthetic thread, and you may unravel the universe. Continue reading
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United in Change
For the past couple of years, I traveled across my country, falling in love with strangers. I sought them out—farmers, ranchers, fly fishermen, evangelicals—and stepped into their lives, uninvited but nearly Continue reading
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The City and the Sea
TWENTY YEARS BEFORE Hurricane Sandy slammed into the slim spit of land that is New York City’s Rockaways, local artist Richard George was out planting trees. He was in his forties Continue reading