Willa Glickman

2 months ago | nybooks.com | Willa Glickman |Abduweli Ayup

“A new crackdown was clearly underway,” writes the Uyghur linguist Abduweli Ayup in the NYR Online, remembering the fifteen months he spent imprisoned in Xinjiang, China. “No one I spoke to knew why the police had abducted them. Each inmate was a bomb, filled with nausea, impatience, and boredom.

Dec 7, 2024 | nybooks.com | Willa Glickman |Olivia Paschal

Hurricane Helene devastated the southeastern United States when it hit in early October—killing about 230 people and causing over $50 billion in damages—particularly in North Carolina. “Those with financial resources may be able to rebuild,” writes Olivia Paschal in a November 3, 2024, essay for the NYR Online.

Oct 28, 2024 | nybooks.com | Willa Glickman |Rhiana Gunn-Wright |Bill McKibben

On Wednesday October 16, 2024, environmentalist and award-winning contributor Bill McKibben and renowned political scientist and author Rhiana Gunn-Wright met for an online discussion about climate, truth, and disaster in the next presidential administration. The conversation was moderated by Willa Glickman. This was the second in our series of online events in the run-up to the 2024 election. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

Sep 28, 2024 | nybooks.com | Willa Glickman |Elizabeth Kolbert

A body of recent scientific research suggests that plants can adapt to new information, predict the future, communicate with animals, and confer privately with each other. Should we think of them as sentient? In our October 3, 2024, issue, Elizabeth Kolbert reviews several recent books on the topic of plant cognition and argues that despite the popularity of the burgeoning field, we are hardly prepared to grapple with the implications of such a profound shift in our understanding of life on Earth.

May 25, 2024 | nybooks.com | Willa Glickman |Tiya Miles

“To the extent that national progress in the arts and sciences can be attributed to university breakthroughs of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the nation as a whole gained from universities’ exploitation of Black and Indigenous people,” writes Tiya Miles in her review of Rachel Swarns’s The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church, from our May 23, 2024, issue.