Review: Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7
The population of Earth is decreasing, and Rosemary and her daughter escape the increasingly inhospitable conditions on land (radiation, disease) to live in an underwater pod. At least that’s what …
Anthropocene
ASLE Spotlight: Multispecies Connections
Enjoy this conversation about multispecies connections, literature, reading, and writing with ASLE and Boria Sax, Lesley Wheeler, Lay Sion Ng, Nate Otjen, Mildred Kiconco Barya, Amy McIntyre, Midge Raymond and yours truly …
Extinction on Display: Ghosts Behind Glass
The extinction genre continues to expand and evolve as writers provide new and unique perspectives on the loss of animal species and how we come to terms with such losses. …
Lost Animals: Voices of Extinction
What would the last living passenger pigeon (seen in silhouette above) have to say if he or she were alive today? Or the Tasmanian tiger? Or the Carolina parakeet? In …
Habitat, by Case Q. Kerns
Black Lawrence Press, August 2025 In Habitat, a delectably creepy novel-in-stories, set slightly in the future, Case Q. Kerns imagines how late-stage capitalism plays itself out in the worst possible …
ASLE announces finalists for 2025 Book Awards
ASLE has announced the finalists for its biennial book awards and I’m excited to see a few titles reviewed here at EcoLit Books, like Sea Change, Soil and The Last …
New and forthcoming environmental books (May 2025)
Imagine a lion who decides one day that he will no longer survive off eating animals. This is the premise of Erasmus Joseph Lion by Marvin Rollick, one of a …
New and forthcoming environmental books (March 2025)
I’m happy to share a new selection of environmentally themed books — including poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Please check them out… Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology Edited by Ian …
Book Review: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
In Charlotte McConaghy’s lovely new novel, Wild Dark Shore, Dominic Salt and his family—eighteen-year-old Raff, seventeen-year-old Fen, and nine-year-old Orly—moved to Shearwater Island eight years earlier, when Dominic “needed a …
The best environmental books we’ve read in 2024
We published 30 book reviews this year and read many more. And out of all the books we’ve read, here are a handful of our favorites. You’ll find a mix …
New and forthcoming environmental books (December 2024)
This is the last “what’s new” post of 2024. Plenty of new books to check out! Happy reading — and happy new year! Crimes Against Nature: New Stories of Environmental …