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Book Review: Curious New England by Joe Citro and Diane Foulds
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Ada Louise Huxtable, the dean of American architecture critics, declared six years ago that our nation was in “near-total architectural retreat.” In her book The Unreal America, the former New York Times critic complained of a pervasive “architecture of facile illusion, of image over substance, of artifice over art.” Huxtable was railing against “Disneyfication” and…
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Bill McKibben Adds to His Literary Eco-Arsenal With a New Book on Bioengineering
You can’t complain to Bill McKibben about an unseasonably cold spring. Fifteen years ago, at age 27, the former New Yorker writer launched an exhaustive investigation of global warming that convinced him humanity — more specifically, human ambition — was having a catastrophic effect on the Earth’s climate. The resulting best-seller, The End of Nature,…
