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A Last Resort
Cory Oldweiler considers German author Franziska Gänsler’s debut novel, “Eternal Summer,” newly translated by Imogen Taylor.
Environment
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.
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.
Eco-Relations: Our Circuitry Sews Us, Word by Word
Susan McCabe explores ecopoetic resonances between Brenda Hillman’s “Three Talks,” Brandon Som’s “Tripas,” and Donald Revell’s “Canandaigua.”
Learning from Park Planned Homes
Kate Wolf considers Gregory Ain’s Altadena housing development in the wake of the Los Angeles fires.
Temporary Community
Sesshu Foster reports from a mutual aid center in the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires.
Snowflakes That Start an Avalanche
Anjali Vaidya reviews Jeremy Brecher’s “The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy.”
How Much Still Abides
In conversation at a LARB Luminary Dinner, Richard Powers and Rosanna Xia discuss cross-genre environmental writing, storytelling as music-making, and finding inspiration at the bottom of the ocean.
Yet Still the Earth Burns
M. Keith Booker reviews Gabrielle Korn’s new novel “The Shutouts.”
Chronicles of Collapse
Erik Loomis reviews “The Burning Earth: A History” by Sunil Amrith.
The Hegemony of What Was Real
Frank Falisi interviews Jeff VanderMeer about his new novel “Absolution.”
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