With Biden's climate push sputtering in the Senate, Germany's effort to exit coal looms large: a major manufacturing power trying to show you can make the shift without populist backlash. Here, for ProPublica and The New Yorker, is my story on how it's going. propublica.org/article/what-g…

Imogen in the Wild (#Cymbeline) has been re-released with subtitles, chapters, and cleaned up audio! Check out this #EcoFilm set in gorgeous #Yosemite now! #EcoTheatre youtube.com/watch?v=YMisTB…

The uncanny confluence of Putin's invasion and the IPCC report is a stark reminder: fossil fuel powers the worst crises facing our planet. If we use this moment to get off oil and gas, we have a fighting chance as a planet.

Today, IPCC released its latest #ClimateReport, which dives into how climate change is already affecting the world’s human and natural systems. Read the report: ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/ And hear from the report's two NOAA authors: noaa.gov/stories/ipcc-c…

I understand why libraries went to digital systems, but I sure miss stamps with due dates. Look at how many Provincetown readers checked out Mark Doty’s My Alexandria soon after its release. Beautiful.

Instead of responding to the misinformed deniers, etc. about human-induced climate change, I am posting this. Feel free to retweet. Education will set you free from those poor ideas. gml.noaa.gov/aggi/aggi.html #climatechange

“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.” Remembering Oliver Sacks, who left us 7 years ago today themarginalian.org/2019/05/27/oli…

First Folio of William Shakespeare, complete work digitized, more: bit.ly/2Vszx28

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In honor of #NationalTranslationMonth, might we suggest our publication The Art of Empathy: Celebrating Literature in Translation, including 19 thought-provoking essays by award-winning translators and publishers. bit.ly/3eEqJ56

Wendell Berry for your Monday:

“Translators frequently quadruple as literary agents, scouts, and tastemakers. So do the editors who make a point of working with them.” @lilyjmeyer on the translators and editors that bring international literature to English-language readers. lareviewofbooks.org/article/breaki…

Keene Pride's first festival ushered in flocks of festival-goers to the city's downtown bearing rainbows, LGBTQ community flags, and messages of support. buff.ly/3xyS2ES

Issue 22.3 of Pedagogy is live, featuring Derritt Mason (@PhDerritt), Morgan Vanek (Morgan Vanek), William Stroup (Bill Stroup), and more. Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/pedagogy/issue…

For Keats's birthday #OTD 1795 @MAPeel explores her relationship with him through the editions she's owned wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2017/06/2…

Really good show by Leslie Mendelson in Keene last night. I’m glad I don’t have to decide whether I like her guitar or piano songs better—she’s so great on both. The Colonial Performing Arts Center

I remember how Charles Simic’s students at UNH would sometimes recoil when he wrote “No” on the draft of a poem (or, worse, “it’s phony”) but then later would say “he was right—it WAS phony.” Great poet and unforgettable teacher.

Here is a truly wonderful recording of Julian Sands passionately reciting the poetry of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. How I wish I could have been there for this reading Keats-Shelley House youtube.com/watch?v=7BRzMT…

Great curation at the #Hokusai show Museum of Fine Arts, Boston These angled walls made for great vistas and pacing, esp with 三井淳平 / Jumpei Mitsui thrilling visitors and making 2d into 3d halfway through. Can’t wait for a return visit.

In the new ⁦The New York Review of Books⁩, a sneak preview of my #Odyssey translation, forthcoming next year from ⁦UChicagoPress⁩: (Caveat lector: Some lines had to be broken) Odysseus Saved from the Sea | Daniel Mendelsohn | The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2023/…