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Michaela Cavanagh

@mmcavanagh.bsky.social

environmental writer & journalist | work in the atlantic, london review of books, LA review of books, lithub, die zeit, hazlitt | PRESENT TENSE coming spring '27 @thenewpress.bsky.social + mcclelland & stewart

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wow! completely honoured to be nominated for a digital publishing award, and in such good company

06.05.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DEAL NEWS - Michaela Cavanaghโ€™s PRESENT TENSE: How We Reckon With the End of the World! Award-winning journalist Michaela Cavanaghโ€™s PRESENT TENSE: How We Reckon With the End of the World, a globe-spanning work of environmental reportage journeying through the emotional landscape of the ...

DEAL NEWS - Michaela Cavanaghโ€™s PRESENT TENSE: How We Reckon With the End of the World!

Read more here: transatlanticagency.com/2025/03/24/d...

25.03.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dream life update: ๐Ÿšจโ˜๏ธ: I'm thrilled to share that I'm writing a book! I feel so lucky that PRESENT TENSE found a home with
@thenewpress.bsky.social and McClelland & Stewart (Penguin Random House Canada). And all thanks to Sam Haywood and the team at @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social โœจ

26.03.2025 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hideaway | Hazlitt In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

4. "The Hideaway," @mmcavanagh.bsky.social @hazlitt.bsky.social

"Ben Green expects doom and his remote, self-sufficient farm is his refuge should society end as we know it. Cavanagh, though, sees something more like potential."

hazlitt.net/longreads/hi...

20.12.2024 17:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hideaway | Hazlitt In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

@mmcavanagh.bsky.social wrote an essay for @hazlitt.bsky.social about her week with a climate doomer.

hazlitt.net/longreads/hi...

18.12.2024 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hideaway | Hazlitt In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green is preparing for the end of the world. For @hazlitt.bsky.social, @mmcavanagh.bsky.social
spent a week with him to find out what exactly it looks like to try to escape climate collapse: hazlitt.net/longreads/hi...

04.12.2024 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hideaway | Hazlitt In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

"At the Collapse Lab, Ben gathered like-minded people who believed that climate collapse wasnโ€™t just imminent, it was happening now.... I was curious. Collapse-curious, I joked to my friends..." The Hideaway by @mmcavanagh.bsky.social for @hazlitt.bsky.social.

04.12.2024 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hideaway & Freedom A man prepares for the end of the world in an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany. Also, a Syrian journalist records a journey through repression.

Featured #longreads today are from @mmcavanagh.bsky.social (in @hazlitt.bsky.social) and The Ringer today. See the rest of today's #longform selection on the website, and subscribe to get them in your inbox daily.

theslowscroll.com/the-hideaway-and-freedom/

05.12.2024 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Hideaway | Hazlitt In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

a year later iโ€™m still asking myself: how can we cope with uncertainty as we oscillate between doom and hope?

iโ€™m grateful to have had the chance to work it out for hazlitt.bsky.social: hazlitt.net/longreads/hi...

(and to @ameliaschonbek.bsky.social for the clear-eyed and thoughtful edits!)

04.12.2024 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

at the Collapse Laboratory, ben gathered like-minded people who believed that climate collapse wasnโ€™t just imminent, it was happening now โ€” and that we needed to think deeply about how to show up for it. and i was curious.

04.12.2024 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

our host was a man named ben green (@thepirateben.bsky.social) in 2019, he bought the biggest, cheapest, most isolated piece of land he could find in germany and started what he calls โ€œone manโ€™s ten-year plan to build a post-climate catastrophe communityโ€.

04.12.2024 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

last summer i spent a week living in an old army barracks-turned-eco-bunker, deep in the east german forest.

i was there for the Collapse Laboratory, a retreat that brought people together to think about how to prepare for the end of the world.

04.12.2024 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Finding Pleasure in Survival: On C Pam Zhangโ€™s โ€œLand of Milk and Honeyโ€ | Los Angeles Review o... Michaela Cavanagh reviews C Pam Zhangโ€™s โ€œLand of Milk and Honey.โ€...

for the LA review of books i wrote about c pam zhangโ€™s novel Land of Milk and Honey โ€” about pleasure, survival and catastrophe โ€” and the shrinking margin between dystopia and reality: lareviewofbooks.org/article/find...

28.01.2024 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

for @theatlantic.bsky.social i wrote about lytton, the canadian town still waiting to move home after it burned to the ground in 2021. what can it teach us about how to rebuild resiliently after a climate disaster?

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

22.12.2023 16:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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oslo city hall appreciation post

16.10.2023 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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