Yesterday evening, at Manhattan’s New School, the New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert delivered the second annual Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture on the Fate of the Earth, an event ...

Schell’s work was continued by his friend and protégé, Bill McKibben, who in 2016 delivered the first annual Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series on the Fate of the Earth.

Schell wrote for The New Yorker, Newsday and The Nation among others, and published several books, notably The Village of Ben Suc about Vietnam and The Fate of the Earth, published in 1982 during ...

Schell’s series was such a tour de force that when it was published as a book, The Fate of the Earth, in 1982, The New York Times wrote: “It accomplishes what no other work has managed to do ...

She recently sat down for a conversation with nuclear disarmament advocate Jonathan Schell, author of "The Fate of the Earth," Fellow at the Nation Institute and Distinguished Fellow at the Yale ...

Before I met Jonathan Schell, I already knew him in the best way possible: ... In his bestselling The Fate of the Earth, as the 1980s began (and an antinuclear movement grew), ...

The fate of the Earth: See page five Is it weird that the possible end of human life on Earth is not front-page news anymore? By Tom Engelhardt. Published January 28, 2020 7:30AM (EST) -- ...

Jonathan Schell has spent his career making us sit up straight in our reading chairs. The New York Times called his most famous book, The Fate of the Earth (1982), "an event of profound historical ...

A native of New York City, Schell was born on Aug. 21, 1943, just two years before the U.S. dropped two atom bombs on Japan. He grew up in a family of thinkers and dissenters: His father, the late ...