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Book Review Flashback: Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

July 22, 2025 by John Yunker
Cover of Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

In 2014, Midge Raymond reviewed a novel that paved the way for contemporary eco-literature, a powerful indictment of the horrors of mountaintop removal mining. Ann Pancake’s powerful novel Strange as This Weather …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction

Book Review: The Burning Earth, A History

September 12, 2024September 7, 2024 by John Yunker
Cover of The Burning Earth: A History by Sunil Amrith

Reading non-fiction books about climate change has, over the years, come to feel like a form of masochism. Rarely do I come away feeling optimistic about the future of this …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, History, Nonfiction, Oil, Sustainability, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company, What we're reading

Book Review: Deep River Burning by Donelle Dreese

February 6, 2015February 6, 2015 by Shel Graves
Deep River Burning by Donelle Dreese

“Memory is an unfolding force tucked away in the leaves of summer trees. With the slightest breeze of provocation, memories stir and reveal themselves, become more wide open and exposed. …

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Categories Fiction, Pollution

Book Review: Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

September 29, 2019January 28, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Ann Pancake’s powerful novel Strange as This Weather Has Been is a must-read not only due to its compelling story but also its accomplishments as a work of eco-literature. This …

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Categories Book Publishers, Fiction, Pollution, Shoemaker & Hoard

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