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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Black Paper

Writing in a Dark Time

Teju Cole

A wide-ranging collection of essays from a celebrated master of the form.

“Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in

Black Paper, a collection of

essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity—and witness the humanity of others—in a time of darkness. Cole is well known as a master of the essay form, and in

Black Paper

he is writing at the peak of his skill, as he models how to be closely attentive to experience—to not just see and take in, but to think critically about what we are seeing and not seeing. Wide-ranging in their subject matter, the essays are connected by ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means to bear wit- ness, recognizing how our individual present is informed by a collective past.

Cole's writings in

Black Paper

approach the fractured moment of our history through a constellation of interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art, elegies both public and private, the defense of writing in a time of political upheaval, the role of the color black in the visual arts, the use of shadow in photography, and the links between literature and activism. ?roughout, Cole gives us intriguing new ways of thinking about the color black and its numer- ous connotations. As he describes the carbon copy process in his epilogue: “Writing on the top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto the bottom white. Black transported the meaning."

Teju Cole

is a novelist, photographer, critic, curator, and the author of six books, which include

Open City, Blind Spot, and, most recently, his

photobook Fernweh. He was the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine from 2015 until 2019. A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard.

Berlin Family Lectures

SEPTEMBER

288 p. 8 color plates, 6 halftones 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64135-5

Cloth $22.50/£18.00

LITERARY COLLECTIONS

Praise for Cole

“[Cole is] an emissary for our best selves.

He is sampling himself for our bene?t,

hoping for enlightenment, and seeking to provide pleasure to us through his art.

May his realm expand."—Norman Rush,

New York Review of Books

“The places he can go, you feel, are just

about limitless."—Dwight Garner, New

York Times

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

?e Nutmeg"s Curse

Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

In this ambitious successor to

The Great Derangement,

acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh ?nds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism"s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New

World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean.

Ṯe Nutmeg"s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh's narrative is the now ubiquitous spice nutmeg. ?e history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh's hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning. Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade, to the migrant crisis, and the animist spirituality of indigenous commu- nities around the world, Ṯe Nutmeg"s Curse oers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.

Amitav Ghosh

is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose books include The Circle of Reason; The Shadow Lines; In an Antique Land; Dancing in Cambodia; The Calcutta Chromosome; The Glass Palace; The Hungry Tide; the Ibis Trilogy: Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire, and The Great Derangement, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

OCTOBER

336 p. 6 halftones 6 x 9

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81545-9

Cloth $25.00

NATURE

CUSAM

“In this brilliant book, aame with insight

and moral power, Ghosh shows that in the history of the nutmeg lies the path to our planetary crisis, twisting through the horrors of empire and racial capital- ism.

The Nutmeg"s Curse

brings to life alternative visions of human ourishing in consonance with the rest of nature— and reminds us how great are the vested interests that obstruct them."

—Sunil Amrith, author of

Unruly Waters

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

?e Other Dark Matter ?e Science and Business of Turning

Waste into Wealth and Health

Lina Zeldovich

Grossly ambitious and rooted in scienti?c scholarship,

The Other Dark Matter

shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource—if we make better use of it. ?e average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crap! Because of the diseases it spreads, we have learned to distance ourselves from our waste, but the long line of engineering marvels we've created to do so—from Roman sewage systems and medieval latrines to the immense, com- puterized treatment plants we use today—has also done considerable damage to the earth's ecology. Now scientists tell us: we've been wasting our waste. When recycled correctly, this resource, cheap and widely available, can be converted into a sustainable energy source, act as an organic fertilizer, provide eective medicinal therapy for antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection, and much more. In clear, engaging prose that draws on her extensive research and inter- views, Lina Zeldovich documents the massive redistribution of nutrients and sanitation inequities across the globe. She proles the pioneers of poop upcy- cling, from startups in African villages to innovators in American cities that convert sewage into fertilizer, biogas, crude oil, and even life-saving medicine. She breaks taboos surrounding sewage disposal and shows how hygienic waste repurposing can help battle climate change, reduce acid rain, and eliminate toxic algal blooms. Ultimately, she implores us to use our innate organic power for the greater good. Don't just sit there and let it go to waste.

Lina Zeldovich

is a writer and editor specializing in the journalism of solutions. Her work has appeared in the

New York Times, Reader"s Digest,

Smithsonian, Popular Science, , Atlantic, Newsweek, and many other popular outlets. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, she lives in New York City and keeps a compost pile in her backyard.

OCTOBER

264 p. 8 halftones 6 x 9

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-61557-8

Cloth $26.00/£21.00

SCIENCE

“An intriguing, compelling, very human

story of how a valuable resource has been used and squandered, thrown away, and rediscovered. It is a story of the people who, against a background of mockery and disbelief, have developed creative, lucrative, and ecologically viable options for reframing what many have seen as a ‘problem" of ‘waste disposal" into an opportunity for innovative resource use.

It will have wide appeal to all intelligent

readers, both within and well beyond academia."—David Waltner-Toews, author of The Origin of Feces: What Excrement

Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a

Sustainable Society

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Gen Z, Explained

?e Art of Living in a Digital Age

Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie,

Jane Shaw, and Linda Woodhead

An optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world. Born since the mid-1990s, Generation Z is the rst generation never to know the world without the internet, and it is the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them? And what can we learn from them?

Gen Z, Explained

is the authoritative portrait of this signicant generation. It draws on extensive interviews that display this generation's candor, surveys that explore their views and attitudes, and a vast database of their astonishingly inventive lexicon to build a comprehensive picture of their values, daily lives, and outlook. Gen Z emerges here as an extraordinarily thoughtful, promising, and perceptive generation—one that is sounding a warning to their elders about the world around them of a complexity and depth the “OK, Boomer" phenomenon could only suggest. Much of the existing literature about Gen Z has been highly judgmen- tal. In contrast, this book provides a deep and nuanced understanding of a generation facing a future of enormous challenges, from climate change to civil unrest. What's more, they are facing this future head-on, relying on themselves and their peers to work collaboratively to solve these problems. As

Gen Z, Ex-

plained shows, this group of young people is as compassionate and imaginative as any that has come before, and understanding the way they tackle issues may enable us to envision new kinds of solutions. ?is portrait of Gen Z is ultimate- ly an optimistic one, suggesting they have something to teach all of us about how to live and thrive in this digital world.

Roberta Katz

is an anthropologist at the Center for Advanced Study in the

Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.

Sarah Ogilvie is a linguist at the

University of Oxford.

Jane Shaw

is a historian at the University of Oxford. Linda Woodhead is a sociologist at Lancaster University.

OCTOBER

288 p. 18 halftones, 7 tables 6 x 9

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79153-1

Cloth $22.50/£18.00

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