Wild Fictions; Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment by Amitav Ghosh

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The University of Chicago Press, 2025 Among writers of climate and environmental fiction, Amitav Ghosh is known for his 2016 non-fiction book The Great Derangement, where he argues that fiction …

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Bloom Again, A Novel by Marybeth Holleman

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University of Alaska Press, 2025 Edward O. Wilson, a pioneer of evolutionary biology, once wrote, “Humanities will have to blend with the sciences, because technology is going to demand the …

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Satellite: Essays of Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far by Simmons Buntin

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Terra Firma Books, Trinity University Press, 2025 This fine collection of essays by Simmons Buntin, Satellite: Essays of Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far, leads with lizards. “They are tidy, …

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Novel Ecologies, Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech

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by Allison Carruth The University of Chicago Press, 2025 Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart Think of clouds. Light, airy, floating around in our atmosphere. Therefore, the words “cloud computing” make it …

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