Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason on How Time and Water Explain the Climate Crisis
For the past two decades, Andri Snær Magnason has been on a quest for language that truly gets at the heart of the climate crisis. Magnason’s diverse body of work includes his latest book, The Casket of Time, an allegorical tale of global calamity and apathy; Dreamland, a nonfiction account of Iceland’s climate policies, which was made into a documentary co-directed by Magnason; The Story of the Blue Planet, a whimsical tale of gluttony and sacrifice that won the Icelandic Literary Prize (a first for a children’s book) and was adapted into a play; and Bónus, a book of poetry that envisions the world, not so unrealistically, as commercialized bulk. On this episode of Time Sensitive, Magnason discusses with Andrew Zuckerman the mutual dependency of spiritual and rational thinking, and details two otherworldly, life-altering meetings with the Dalai Lama.
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