Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is a frequent and long-standing contributor of essays, stories, and reported pieces to The New Yorker. He is the author of the novels “Crossroads,” “Purity,” “Freedom,” “The Corrections,” “Strong Motion,” and “The Twenty-Seventh City”; three collections of essays, “The End of the End of the Earth,” “Farther Away,” and “How to Be Alone”; a memoir, “The Discomfort Zone”; and a book-length essay in footnotes to a translation, “The Kraus Project.”
How the “No Kill” Movement Betrays Its Name
By keeping cats outdoors, trap-neuter-release policies have troubling consequences for city residents, local wildlife—and even the cats themselves.
The Problem of Nature Writing
To succeed—to get people to care about preserving the world—it can’t be only about nature.
What If We Stopped Pretending?
The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.
How the “No Kill” Movement Betrays Its Name
By keeping cats outdoors, trap-neuter-release policies have troubling consequences for city residents, local wildlife—and even the cats themselves.
The Problem of Nature Writing
To succeed—to get people to care about preserving the world—it can’t be only about nature.
What If We Stopped Pretending?
The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.