Field Notes

Climate futurist Alex Steffen helps you see the patterns beneath the chaos — and build new strategies for life in a time of planetary discontinuity.

Bird photos, notes about reading, and the odd essay from the novelist Caleb Crain

Essays in Gnostic Pulp: the grand American tradition of literature in which deep investigations into the nature of reality are mashed up against dime novel tropes.

The Southlander is the biweekly email newsletter of Southlands, a magazine devoted to exploring the wild South. Issue one in print fall 2025. Pre-order at southlandsmag.com

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