Nathaniel Rich Biography Nathaniel Rich is the author, most recently, of Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade (MCD/FSG, 2021). He is a recipient of VQR’s Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction. See Work PHOTOGRAPHY / Fall 2023 Don’t Be a Square Photography by Margeaux Walter , Essay by Nathaniel Rich The Dissonance of Living in the Anthropocene FICTION / Fall 2017 Blue Rock By Nathaniel Rich , Illustration by Lisk Feng As the dinghy merged with the horizon, Devers raised his terrible high voice.“Bricks, sir?”I reminded myself that Devers was a novice and should be forgiven for assuming that I had time for leisure. Unlike Bertram, the first assistant...