Subsurface

A bold new consideration of climate change between narratives of the Earth’s layers and policy of the present   Long seen as a realm of mystery and possibility, the subsurface beneath our feet has taken on all-too-real import in the era of climate change. Can reading narratives of the past that take imaginative leaps under the surface better attune us to our present knowledge of a warming planet? In Subsurface , Karen Pinkus looks below the surface of texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan