Environment

Toward a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition
Ashley Dawson thinks about the future through Nicholas Beuret’s “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” and Thea Riofrancos’s “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism.”
Ashley DawsonSep 25
- Environment
- Politics
Realism Scrapes Through
Harry Stecopoulos explores Ian McEwan’s new novel “What We Can Know.”
Harry StecopoulosSep 23
The Point, However, Is to Change It
In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown.”
Genevieve GuentherSep 13
The Shapes We Travel
Miyo McGinn conducts a circuitous Q and A with “The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere” author Nicholas Triolo.
Miyo McGinnAug 31
- Memoir & Essay
- Environment
It’s Only Getting Hotter
Lisa Kwon talks with Sam Bloch about his new book “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.”
Lisa KwonJul 21
- Politics
- Environment
Incendiary
Charley Burlock interrogates the myths surrounding wildfires, grief, and California's supposed “gasoline trees” in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
Charley BurlockJul 3
- LARB Lit
- Environment
If We Could Talk to the Animals
Andrew Koenig considers Elisha Cohn’s “Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel.”
Andrew KoenigJun 6
- Literary Criticism
- Environment
Form, Object, Art
Caroline Tracey probes the experimental book-art of Mexican author Verónica Gerber Bicecci.
Caroline TraceyMay 27
- Art & Architecture
- Environment
There Is No Such Thing as Green Capitalism
David Shipko explores climate denialism in speculative literature and culture.
David ShipkoMay 26
- SF
- Environment
In Defense of the Free Auteur
David Louis Zuckerman explores crisis and awakening in Amalia Ulman’s film, “Magic Farm,” at the 2025 Los Angeles Festival of Movies.
David Louis ZuckermanMay 25
- Film
- Environment
What Would It Take to Re-Sacralize Nature?
Ellen Wayland-Smith admires how Robert Macfarlane’s “Is a River Alive?” places the reader in immersive contact with the nature we regard as mere backdrop to human activity.
Ellen Wayland-SmithMay 20
- Science & Technology
- Environment
A World on Fire
Tim Hirschel-Burns evaluates Friederike Otto’s “Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change,” translated by Sarah Pybus.
Tim Hirschel-BurnsMay 18
- Environment
- Politics