Nathaniel Rich is an American novelist and essayist. In addition to Losing Earth: A Recent History, he has written the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor’s Tongue, and the 2005 nonfiction book San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present.
ARTICLES FEATURING NATHANIEL

Suicide Missions
Historian Michael D. Gordin reviews several books in order to tackle the problem of deferred solutions — the fact that we seem rigged to defer suffering....

PODCAST #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow"
Nathaniel Rich is an American novelist and essayist. He is the author of the 2008 novel, The Mayor's Tongue and the ...

Fear is Fun: Nathaniel Rich's "Odds Against Tomorrow"
A COLLEGE CLASSROOM STRUGGLES to focus on a lecture while, behind the tweed shoulders of the professor, an overhead projector streams ...
