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Eka Kurniawan: “It would be great to live around people who read literature from across the world”
Since the publication of his first novel Beauty Is a Wound in 2002 Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan has made himself a name internationally Drawing on the myths and beliefs of his country while combining earthliness and poetry magic and realism his short stories have been translated into more than thirty languages
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Joanne McNeil: “The web still offers a lot of potential, besides what corporations have made of it.”
In her recent book Lurking How a Person Became a User American writer Joanne McNeil traces the history of the internet for the first time from the perspective of the user Pushing back against glorified narratives of the early days of the World Wide Web she argues for a more inclusive communitybased internet that is not only shaped by corporations
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Sergey Zimov: “Thawing permafrost is a direct threat to the climate”
Beyond the Arctic Circle in the heart of northern Siberia Russian scientist Sergey Zimov has created Pleistocene Park to reconstitute the ecosystem of the Ice Age by reintroducing large herbivore species into the former Mammoth steppe where the soil had become severely depleted Restoring these ecosystems could also help halt the thawing of the permafrost a gigantic layer of glacial ice that traps billions of tons of organic carbon As it melts the microbes that dwell here quickly convert formerly frozen organic matter into carbon dioxide and methane The release of these greenhouse gases as a result of climate change is a threat that has long been ignored