Scientists and climate experts are furious after a New Yorker opinion column declared the fight against climate change useless. In an essay titled "What If We Stopped Pretending" published Sunday, the ...

The climate apocalypse is coming and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. At least that’s the thesis of writer Jonathan Franzen, whose recent essay in The New Yorker — “What if We Stopped Pretending?

The author, a contributor to the new ‘Peanuts Papers’ anthology, comes to the Schulz Museum. What: “In Conversation with Jonathan Franzen” When: 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17 Where: Charles M. Schulz Museum, ...

At the time the essay appeared, Franzen took heat for suggesting that “in one interpretation of his suicide, David had died of boredom and in despair about his future novels,” but that’s not really ...