The five senses of spring: How climate change is shaping our experience of the season

Singing frogs seek love. A sweet sap flows from maples. Beautiful migratory birds return to their northern nests.

The five senses of spring: How climate change is shaping our experience of the season

Singing frogs are looking for love. Sweet sap is flowing from the maple trees. Striking migratory birds are returning to their northerly nests. Spring is about transformation, a season often marked by its dynamic sights, smells, sounds and tastes. As humans change the climate, our experience of the season is changing, too. Here are just […]

Inside the Outdoors: Sights, sounds, smells announce spring’s arrival

If you happened to live in one of those warm places to which Minnesotans migrate to escape our winters, spring might be more a calendar event than a sensory event. Take Florida, for example. The major differences from season to season there are modest, varying mostly in temperature and humidity, with the possibility of a hurricane thrown in to liven things up. An oversimplification, surely, but not outrageously far from the truth when compared t…

Rereading queer and post-apocalyptic of King Lear, Ceremony storm is a beautiful revelation. With this first novel translated into French, the Englishman Julia Armfield reveals a pen as fine as it is precise. A novelist to follow... The post "Ceremony storm" of Julia Armfield: King Lear at the hour of climate disruption appeared first on Benzine Magazine.