"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over – like this world, and some of the people in it". In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them – "Ode...

Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, "The Calamity Form...