Nathaniel Rich writes about our relationship with the natural world, in particular, what he calls “our understanding that there is no longer anything ‘natural’ about the ‘natural world.’” He is the author of Losing Earth: A Recent History, which tells the story of climate change and climate- change denialism and was shortlisted for the 2020 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Its follow-up, Second Nature, explores humanity’s many “crimes against nature”—from lab-grown meat to efforts to bring back extinct species—and includes a story that was the basis for the film Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo. Rich is also the author of three novels, including the acclaimed, wide-ranging King Zeno, about World War I, the Spanish flu, the birth of jazz, an ax murderer, and the New Orleans mafia. He is a writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine and a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books.