Book Review: Shannon Kuta Kelly’s The Tree is Missing
Shannon Kuta Kelly’s debut poetry collection ‘The Tree is Missing’ is a reflective and emotive meditation on humanity’s inseparable relationship with the natural world.
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The Language of Trees, A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten
Tin House, 2023 Hermann Hesse once wrote that the key to existential joy was in learning how to listen to the trees. There is also great pleasure to be had …
New Environmental Books of Note
Two new books to keep an eye out for. First, a story collection from Black Lawrence Press featuring a story by our own JoeAnn Hart! Fire & Water: Stories from …
Book Review: IN THE COMPANY OF MEN
Véronique Tadjo’s slender, haunting novel In the Company of Men offers myriad points of view—human and nonhuman—in its story of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014. Published in …
The Overstory by Richard Powers wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize
Congratulations to Richard Powers for a novel that captures the tragedy of what we have lost (and continue to lose) every time we cut down some of the oldest-living inhabitants …
The Overstory: An arboreal love story (and lament)
When we started EcoLit Books five years ago, this was the type of book I had in mind. A novel that places nature in its proper place in relation to …