• Climate Change

    Wildfires

    When the Sequoias Burn: Inside the Making of a California Megafire

    Jordan Thomas on the New Challenges Firefighters Face in an Era of Climate Change

     
    By Jordan Thomas  May 28, 2025
    Anniversaries

    20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 27, 2025
    Apocalypses

    Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

    By Martha Park  May 23, 2025
    The Natural World

    What I Learned at My First Tree-Climbing Workshop

    By Marguerite Holloway  May 13, 2025
    Technology

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

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    Judy Blume on Radical Honesty

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  April 11, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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
    Storms

    Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life’s Many Storms

    "All storms are alike yet each speaks to us in its particularity."

    By Catherine Bush  May 28, 2025
    Dystopias

    Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

    By Laila Lalami  March 13, 2025
    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

    Julie Zigoris on the Resilience of Booksellers

    By Julie Zigoris  March 5, 2025
    The Hub

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

    By Jonny Diamond  March 4, 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

    Robert D. Kaplan Reflects on Globalization’s Shifting Definitions in the Age of Social Media

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

    Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires

    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

    Kim Kelly Offers Advice and Reading Suggestions for How We Might Survive the Depredations to Come

    By Kim Kelly  January 21, 2025
    American West

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

    By Kyle Paoletta  January 17, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

    By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
    The Hub

    The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist.

    By Brittany Allen  March 19, 2025
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