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Picture a Garden

by Katy Keffer

Grounded in values of sustainability and ecological authenticity, "Picture a Garden" is an imaginative and informative introduction to gardening. Linda Hornberg’s delightful gardening handbook "Picture a Garden" is an illustrated guide... Read More

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Flood Plain

by Luke Sutherland

In grief-soaked language, Lisa Sewell’s poetry collection "Flood Plain" meditates on the parallels of personal, ecological, and social loss, aching for the world with “a gust of triumph beneath / the syntax of regret.” Open... Read More

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Sunken Lands

by Willem Marx

An interdisciplinary history of flooding and flood stories, Gareth E. Rees’s book "Sunken Lands" explores the eerie legacy of climate change in humanity’s past. Weaving the oracular, poetic, and horrifying together in tales of... Read More

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Subjugate the Earth

by Kristen Rabe

"Subjugate the Earth" is Philipp Blom’s insightful, timely, and ambitious survey of the history of ideas related to humanity’s domination of nature. Rigorous and comprehensive, the book examines a range of philosophical ideas related... Read More

Book Review

Immemorial

by Rebecca Foster

In her outstanding book-length essay "Immemorial", Lauren Markham compares language, memorials, and rituals as strategies for coping with climate anxiety and grief. Monuments to famous men are passé, the work insists; instead, it is... Read More

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