• Climate Change

    Baillie Gifford Prize

    John Vaillant’s “Fire Weather” has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 16, 2023
    Climate Fiction

    On the False Promise of Climate Fiction 

    By Emma Pattee  November 14, 2023
    Climate Fiction

    Counter History: Nine Retellings and Reinventions of Noah’s Ark

    By Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates  November 8, 2023
    Animals

    What the Marabou Stork Taught Me About Writing in an Era of Mass Extinction and Waste

    By Ashia Ajani  November 6, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Hear a New Short Story from Laia Jufresa

    By Emergence Magazine  November 6, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    A Conflagration That Consumes: What One Family Lost to Fire

    By John Vaillant  November 2, 2023
    The History of Literature

    America’s First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

    By History of Literature  October 30, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Anna Badkhen on Imprints of the Past

    By Emergence Magazine  October 30, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Erin Sharkey on the Black Experience of Nature

    By History of Literature  October 23, 2023
    Keen On

    Vincent Bevins on How to Tend the Flames of Protests

    By Keen On  October 18, 2023
    Birds

    The World’s Most Beautiful Bird Lives in Yellowstone National Park

    By Douglas W. Smith, Lauren E. Walker, Katharine E. Duffy and David Haines   October 12, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    A Short Story from Masatsugu Ono and Emergence Magazine

    By Emergence Magazine  October 10, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    If Lydia Davis Wasn’t a Writer, She’d Devote Herself to Climate Activism

    By Lydia Davis  October 2, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Natalie Rose Richardson on Birdwatching and Attention

    By Emergence Magazine  October 2, 2023
    Climate Crisis

    Wildfires and Vanishing Coastlines: Rosanna Xia and Lizzie Johnson on Turning Their Climate Reporting into Books

    By Rosanna Xia  September 29, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Stephanie Krzywonos on Re-imagining Antarctica

    By Emergence Magazine  September 25, 2023
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    How to Live in Nature: S.L. Coney, Ruthanna Emrys, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   September 6, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Richard Powers on How to Reconnect with Earth

    By Talk Easy  September 6, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on How Words Shape Our World

    By Emergence Magazine  September 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Simon Sharpe on Rethinking How We Fight Climate Change

    By Keen On  August 30, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Melanie Challenger on Listening to Other Species

    By Emergence Magazine  August 28, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Ancestral Structures on the Trailing Edge

    By Emergence Magazine  August 21, 2023
    Children's Lit

    Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

    By Ethan Warren  August 16, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    When the Earth Started to Sing

    By Emergence Magazine  August 7, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Ben Okri Reads From Tiger Work

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  August 2, 2023
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