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By Midge Raymond. Little A, 2024.

“After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galápagos, and to Gavin, the mentor with whom she had a long-ago affair. Their project is to build nests to revive the vulnerable penguin population. But Mallory doesn’t dare tell Gavin why she’s really come back. Then she discovers old journals hidden in a lava cave―confessions of another woman who needed to disappear.

In 1929, Dore Strauch left the life she knew to create ...

By Tatiana Konrad. University of Nevada Press, 2024.

From the publisher’s website:

“Concentrating on a powerful, emerging genre, Tatiana Konrad’s Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis provides a survey of popular narratives that further our understanding of climate change in contemporary fiction. Konrad advocates for the expansion and redefinition of the cli-fi genre and argues that industrial fiction from the nineteenth century is the first example of climate change fiction. Tracing the ways through which cli-fi outlines a history of our modern ecocultural crisis, this ...

By Tatiana Konrad. Temple University Press, 2024.

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“Drawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism traces how the perverse nature of colonialism continues to dominate the globe today.

The editor and contributors provide a careful analysis of the intersection of disability, the environment, and colonialism to understand issues such as eco-ableism, environmental degradation, homogenized approaches to environmentalism, and climate change. They also look at the body as a site of ...

By Ben Stanley. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.

From GMOs to vegetarianism and veganism, questions of what we should (and shouldn’t) eat can be frequent sources of debate and disagreement. In Precarious Eating, Ben Jamieson Stanley asks how recentering global South representations of food might shift understandings of environmental precarity.

Precarious Eating follows the lead of writers and thinkers in South Africa and India who are tracing the production and consumption of food, exploring ways to reconnect our narratives about climate change, global capitalism, and ...

By Tatiana Konrad. University of Exeter Press, 2023.

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“Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as pollution and pandemics.

The book provides environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular how it has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian and British cultural and literary narratives. The authors explore how these representations and the constructed meanings of air can help ...

By Sarah Dimick. Columbia University Press, 2024.

As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and currents along the Bay of Bengal. An essayist in the northeastern United States observes that maple sap flows earlier now, prompting him to reflect on gender and seasons of transition. Poets affiliated with small island nations arrive in Paris for the United ...

By Janisse Ray. Trackless Wild LLC, 2024.

To write killer prose you need three things.

You need craft. That means you need to learn how to put words together so they say more than what’s on the page. You have to push your words to say more. Plus, something more than craft is necessary. You need a sparkling, juicy, and ever-deepening relationship with mystery. You have to get yourself into that current. How? How do you tap into magic and transfer it to the page? You need ...

By Chukwunwike Anolue. Routledge, 2024.

Time and Nature in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare. It interrogates the intricate interface between time and nature in 11 of Osundare’s defining poetry collections. This is a book of postcolonial ecocriticism from an African perspective. It brings together the ecocritical theory of animism and theories of geologic time in the discussion of Osundare’s poetry. Osundare shows that animism has a lot to offer in ...

By Midge Raymond and John Yunker. Oceanview Publishing, 2024.

On a remote island off the coast of Tasmania, an Australian wilderness guide embarks on a four-day hike with six guests—and arrives at their destination with only two. Through the structure of a closed-door mystery, Devils Island tells the story of the Tasmanian devil and its struggle to survive. While there’s an abundance of nonfiction about climate change and mass extinction, Devils Island adds to a small but fast-growing sub-genre of eco-mysteries.

Midge Raymond is the ...

By Jamie Wang. MIT Press, 2024.

This book is an exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities. As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imaginary of a flourishing urban ecofuture is often driven by a specific version of sustainability that is tied to both high-tech futurism and persistent economic growth. What kinds of ...