Falter

The Uninhabitable Earth

Roy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization and the novel War Porn. He teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Roy Scranton

No Happy Ending: On Bill McKibben’s “Falter” and David Wallace-Wells’s “The Uninhabitable Earth”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

War Primer

The Shipwreck of History: Bertolt Brecht’s “War Primer”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

<h4>Since receiving a PhD in English and an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University in 2001, Metres has written and translated a number of books and chapbooks, including Pictures at an Exhibition (2016), Sand Opera (2015), I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (2015), Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Poetic Texts of Lev Rubinstein (2014), Concordance of Leaves (2013), abu ghraib arias (2011), Ode to Oil (2011), To See the Earth (2008), Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (2007), Instants (2006), Primer for Non-Native Speakers (2004), Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein (2004), and A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (2003).</h4>
<h4>His writing has appeared widely, including in Best American Poetry and has garnered two NEA fellowships, two Arab American Book Awards, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, five Ohio Arts Council Grants, the PEN/Heim Translation Grant, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Akron Poetry Prize, the Anne Halley Prize, the Creative Workforce Fellowship, the Cleveland Arts Prize, and the inaugural George W. Hunt, S.J. Award for Excellence in Journalism, Literature &amp; the Arts.</h4>
<h4>He is a professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland, where he teaches literature and creative writing, and lives with his wife Amy and their two daughters.</h4>

Philip Metres

No Blood for Beauty: Phil Metres and Roy Scranton on Torture, Art, and the Literature of Empire

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

Fiction

The Trauma Hero: From Wilfred Owen to “Redeployment” and “American Sniper”

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

Roy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization and the novel War Porn. He teaches at the University of Notre Dame.