Collaborative relationships between species are widespread in ecosystems across the planet. One I’m most familiar with is between a tree that grows near my home in New Mexico, the piñon, …
What happens after you flush? In After the Flush: Rethinking the Future of Human Waste, author Nick Kawa takes us on an enlightening and at times frustrating journey from toilet …
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It may be summer vacation for some but not here at EcoLit Books! Here are the latest selection of books to come across our desks… Undying Fire: A Fire History …
Read more: New and forthcoming environmental books (August 2026)
A rather clichéd question consistently asked of curators, connoisseurs and collectors in interviews is: ‘if this place was on fire, what would you save?’ The chosen piece is inevitably of …
Read the review: Book Review: The Future of the Past – When cultural heritage meets climate change
As a nursling of the rural Irish landscape, I was taken with the title of Merritt R. Turetsky’s book Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life as …
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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 …
Read the review: Wild Fictions; Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment by Amitav Ghosh
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 …
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 …
I’m pleased the share the latest batch of fiction and nonfiction books with environmental themes… Footprint: Four Itineraries By Radhika Subramaniam The book takes the footprint for a walk—to the …
Read more: New and forthcoming environmental books (September 2025)
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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A Novel, by Kate Woodworth Sibylline Press, 2025 Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… the trees commingle their …