Lauren Markham is the award-winning author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life (2017) and A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (2024). Her third book, Immemorial, about climate grief and the art of memorial, was published by Transit Books in February 2025. A US American of Greek heritage, she has been working with migrants for two decades, and writing about migration and other social issues in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Lauren Markham
Articles
Building a Nest
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
Another Chance at This Dilapidated Earth
Lauren Markham considers personal and planetary grief, longing, and estrangement in her review of Laura Marris’s “The Age of Loneliness.”
Sequence: Excerpt from “A Map of Future Ruins” by Lauren Markham
LARB presents an excerpt of Lauren Markham’s new book “A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.”
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