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The Scar of a Language
Katharina Volckmer reviews Pol Guasch’s “Napalm in the Heart,” translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Environment
The Source of All Amazement
M. Keith Booker reviews “Playground” by Richard Powers.
What, Then, Is Natural?
Obi Kaufmann considers the coming of the modern megafire and many misconceptions about California’s land, in an excerpt from “The State of Fire.”
Coercion
In an excerpt from “By the Fire We Carry,” Rebecca Nagle explores the concept of “allotment”—and its repercussions.
Building a Public Energy Commons
Ashley Dawson reviews Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno’s “The Fall and Rise of American Finance” and Brett Christophers’s “The Price Is Wrong.”
Words Versus Words, Fire with Fire
Chris Featherman considers the crafting of global warming and environmental crisis narratives in his review of “The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It” by Genevieve Guenther.
Lush, Reciprocal Entanglements
Manjula Martin explores the hidden costs and radical potential of humanity’s enduring hobby in Olivia Laing’s “The Garden Against Time.”
Meeting as Wonderstruck Kin
Marissa Grunes reviews Renée Bergland’s “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.”
It Hurts To See Them Go
Kate Sadoff reviews Jonathan Vigliotti’s “Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America.”
It’s Not My Job to Give You Hope: A Conversation Between Emily Raboteau and Manjula Martin
Manjula Martin speaks with Emily Raboteau about environmental writing and their recent climate crisis memoirs.
Our Future Is Not Foreclosed: A Conversation with Emily Raboteau
Scott Burton interviews Emily Raboteau about “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse.’”
As the Strands Come Together, Patterns Arise: A Conversation with Carolyn Kuebler
Ladette Randolph interviews Carolyn Kuebler about the relationship between writing and editing and her debut novel, “Liquid, Fragile, Perishable.”
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