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Silko Foresaw Arizona’s Water Crisis

In “Almanac of the Dead” (1991), Silko foresees Arizona’s current water problems.

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On Black Friday, Stay Focused

In “Ceremony,” Leslie Marmon Silko warns what can happen if we let commercialization blind us to our real gifts. It’s a good lesson for Black Friday.

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Lovecraft Foresees Our Future

Om 1935 orror writer H.P. Lovecraft imagined all the water on earth drying up–thereby foreseeing the dangers posed by climate change.

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Following a Drought, Healing Rain

Tuesday For weeks now, we here in Tennessee and other parts of the American south have been gripped by what they’re calling a “flash drought.” Abnormally high temperatures and lack of any precipitation have been “cracking farm soil, drying up ponds and raising the risk of wildfires.” We’re far from the worst extreme weather event […]

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Drought and the Human War on Nature

Pueblo novelistLeslie Marmon Silko finds a combination of spiritual, psychological and economic explanations for drought.

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