In celebration of Elastic magazine's newly released second volume, join us for a conversation about the possibilities of psychedelic literature.
Throughout history, humans have attributed healthy urban forests with a role in fostering a healthy citizenry. But how has this claim been substantiated, and why and how exactly did trees become integral to the Western idea of what constitutes a healthy...
Petrarch’s Canzoniere stands as one of the greatest and most influential collections of love poetry ever written. A.M. Juster, a celebrated poet and translator, brings Petrarch’s vision to life with precision and grace, offering a rendition that is both...
Douglas Stuart is the author of Shuggie Bain (NYT bestseller; 2020 Booker Prize) and Young Mungo (British Book Award finalist).
What are we to make of Nolan’s reworking of this Homeric epic? How does his version adapt the ancient story and shape the narrative through cinematic techniques? What does the film and its reception tell us about our own time and its relationship to the...
Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novels include Now I Surrender and You Dreamed of Empires.
Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma) is a historian whose work seeks to integrate the natural sciences into the study of the human past. He writes on the history of humans as agents of ecological change and asks how we can approach questions such as...
