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The Language of Trees, A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten

February 8, 2025January 7, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

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 …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Gardening, History, Nonfiction, Trees

New Environmental Books of Note

August 20, 2021 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Sustainability, Trees, What we're reading

Book Review: IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

May 5, 2021 by Midge Raymond

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 …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Fiction, Trees

The Overstory by Richard Powers wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize

October 14, 2020April 16, 2019 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Awards, Book Reviews, Conservation, Fiction, Trees

The Overstory: An arboreal love story (and lament)

October 14, 2020May 16, 2018 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Fiction, Trees, W. W. Norton & Company

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