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Incendiary
Charley Burlock interrogates the myths surrounding wildfires, grief, and California's supposed “gasoline trees” in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 45: “Submission.”
Environment
If We Could Talk to the Animals
Andrew Koenig considers Elisha Cohn’s “Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel.”
Form, Object, Art
Caroline Tracey probes the experimental book-art of Mexican author Verónica Gerber Bicecci.
There Is No Such Thing as Green Capitalism
David Shipko explores climate denialism in speculative literature and culture.
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.
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.
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.
Listening to the Nonhuman World: On Strategies for Saving the Biosphere
In this second of a two-part essay, Jonathan S. Blake considers two more recent books on the political rights of nonhuman beings.
Language at the End of the World
Sarah Yanni considers Rosie Stockton’s new book of poems, “Fuel.”
A Last Resort
Cory Oldweiler considers German author Franziska Gänsler’s debut novel, “Eternal Summer,” newly translated by Imogen Taylor.
The Teeming Earth
Bathsheba Demuth reviews Ferris Jabr’s “Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life.”
Listening to the Nonhuman World: On Including Other Life-Forms in Politics
In this first of a two-part essay, Jonathan Blake considers recent books on the political rights of nonhuman beings.
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