American Delirium

Molly MacVeagh is a graduate student in English at Cornell University. She works on questions of food and climate in contemporary literature. Her writing has appeared in&nbsp;Public Books&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Rambling.

Molly MacVeagh

The Passion of the Taxidermist: On Betina González’s “American Delirium”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

The Inland Sea

Cringe and Catastrophe: Madeleine Watts’s Climate Fiction

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Molly MacVeagh is a graduate student in English at Cornell University. She works on questions of food and climate in contemporary literature. Her writing has appeared in&nbsp;Public Books&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Rambling.