Elijah Wolfson

Wolfson is an editorial director at TIME, responsible for health, science, and climate change coverage.

Recent Articles

The Ocean Is Climate Change’s First Victim and Last Resort

Escalating tragedies are at hand beneath the waters that make up over 70% of earth’s surface.

By Elijah Wolfson June 23, 2022

How Atlanta Director Hiro Murai Helped Bring Surrealism to Prestige TV

In the early 2010s, Hiro Murai was a Los Angeles-based music-video director, working regularly with the local Odd Future music collective—which included Frank Ocean, Earl Sweatshirt, and Tyler, the Creator, among others—as well as making...

By Elijah Wolfson May 25, 2022

The New Language of Climate Change Inequality: IPCC

On Monday, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest assessment of the state of the global climate crisis, focusing on “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”—one of the core areas the IPCC...

By Elijah Wolfson March 1, 2022

How Marlon James Is Rewriting the Rules of Fantasy Fiction

After winning the 2015 Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings, his decades-spanning, dazzlingly inventive novel centered around a real-life assassination attempt on Bob Marley, author Marlon James embarked on a project of...

By Elijah Wolfson February 15, 2022

Paris Resurfaces Buried Bièvre River to Fight Climate Change

In 1899, a writer for French newspaper Le Figaro surveyed the damage Parisians had done to the Bièvre, a river that for hundreds of years had snaked up through southern Paris, joining the Seine near...

By Ciara Nugent and Mapping by Elijah Wolfson January 24, 2022

Richard Powers on His New Novel, 'Bewilderment'

"I think the book holds open the possibility of a more joyous and a more rewarding way of being in the world"

By Elijah Wolfson September 23, 2021

The Language Of Climate Change Just Changed in a Major Way

In so many ways, not much has changed since the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—perhaps the premiere climate science-and-policy organization in the world—published its last major report in 2014. Just as it...

By Elijah Wolfson August 9, 2021

Let's Discuss the Top Chef: Portland Finale

Did the right person win?

By Judy Berman , Eliana Dockterman , Kat Moon and Elijah Wolfson July 2, 2021

I Went to the Westminster Dog Show and All I Got Was This Lousy Positive View of Humanity

There is only one thing I know for sure about the Westminster Dog Show: there’s almost zero chance that I would have ever attended the event if not for the virus that upended the world....

By Elijah Wolfson June 14, 2021

Women Are Transforming What Climate Leadership Looks Like

The COVID-19 pandemic, like the climate crisis, is amplifying existing racial and gender injustices in our society. TIME editors Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson moderated a conversation with two women working to create a more...

By Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson April 20, 2021
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