John MacNeill Miller is the author of The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science (University of Virginia Press, 2024). His writing on literature, science, animals, and the environment has appeared in Literary Hub, The Revelator, The Millions, and PMLA, among other venues. He lives on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
John MacNeill Miller
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Writing on Public Books
The Empty Lab, in Science and in Fiction
When literature refuses readers entry into the laboratory, it fosters suspicions of science itself.
What Birders Don’t See
Rather than studying birds—and birders—in isolation, the time has come to see both as linked to the crises of racism and climate change.
