The wilderness is full of misanthropes

On crowds and nature writing

It’s no coincidence that Kathryn Schulz’s recent New Yorker article on nature writing and the Misanthropocene was published just days after a New York Times photo essay on crowding at national parks. I mean, in one sense it was a coincidence in that the magazine was printed before—and the contents formalized long-before—the New York Times story went up.…