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Megan Nichols is an Arkansas based writer. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Oxford American, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. She is the managing Editor of Variant Literature.

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  1. Issue · Jul 15, 2026

    I Never Want to Read About Climate Change (opens the original)

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    I never seek out books on climate change. What I learn usually comes through laced fingers reading headlines and watching sixty-second clips. A few times a year I brace myself for a barrage of articles consumed anxiously about wildfires, heat waves, hurricanes, and global warming.. Informed and utterly overwhelmed, I return to my life with a sense of dread and powerlessness. When my friend Jessica Lohafer suggested we read Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the

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