Environment | Los Angeles Review of Books

Meeting as Wonderstruck Kin

Marissa Grunes reviews Renée Bergland’s “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.”

Kate Sadoff reviews Jonathan Vigliotti’s “Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America.”

Manjula Martin speaks with Emily Raboteau about environmental writing and their recent climate crisis memoirs.

Scott Burton interviews Emily Raboteau about “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse.’”

Ladette Randolph interviews Carolyn Kuebler about the relationship between writing and editing and her debut novel, “Liquid, Fragile, Perishable.”

For Earth Day, Bill McKibben speaks with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change and her new book “H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z.”

Deborah Coen shows how historians miss a great deal when they rely on the quantitative tools of scientists.

Ellie Eberlee reviews Manjula Martin’s “The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History.”

Ellie Eberlee reviews Daniel Gumbiner’s “Fire in the Canyon.”

Mathias Thaler argues that utopian thinking has a role to play in addressing the climate crises.

Steve Paulson interviews author, scholar, and philosopher Donna Haraway.

Roy Scranton reviews two new books by Bill McKibben and David Wallace-Wells, examining why they don't go nearly far enough.