• Climate Change

    Technology

    From MLMs to Nuclear War:
    10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

    Featuring Work by Bridget Read, Amanda Hess, Robert Macfarlane, and More

     
    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2025
    Pollution

    Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

    By Ariel Courage  April 10, 2025
    New in Nonfiction

    From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    Earthquake Anxiety:
    Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

    By Emma Pattee  March 27, 2025
    The Hub

    The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist.

    By Brittany Allen  March 19, 2025
    Dystopias

    Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

    By Laila Lalami  March 13, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Wildfires

    The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record 

    By Rebecca Worby  March 7, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    Dennis Lehane: Confessions of a Novelist Turned TV Showrunner

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  March 6, 2025
    Book Fairs

    How the San Francisco Rare Book Fair Became a Refuge from the LA Wildfires

    By Julie Zigoris  March 5, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    Judy Blume on Radical Honesty

    live at the 2024 Sun Vally Writers' Conference

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  April 11, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

    By Madeleine Watts  February 20, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

    By Sarah Viren  February 7, 2025
    Globalization

    Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

    By Robert D. Kaplan  January 29, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires

    In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 23, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    John Vaillant on Fire Weather

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  January 22, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    A Way of Living: On Direct Action and Survival Work in the Face of American Fascism

    By Madeline ffitch  January 21, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid

    By Kim Kelly  January 21, 2025
    American West

    “We’re Not Living Right.” On the Failed Human Efforts to Conquer the Desert

    Kyle Paoletta Explores Language, Survival and Belonging in the American West

    By Kyle Paoletta  January 17, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

    By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

    By Brittany Allen  January 10, 2025
    Climate Crisis

    What Will You Save When the Climate Crisis Comes For You?

    By Eiren Caffall  January 8, 2025
    Climate Change

    Forest, Forest Burning Bright: On Humans’ Relationship with Trees in an Era of Climate Change

    Lauren E. Oakes Examines the Global Disequilibrium We’ve Created

    By Lauren E. Oakes  January 6, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Serviceberry

    By Drew Broussard  December 11, 2024
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    By Jonny Diamond  March 4, 2025
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