Hands and Fins and Feet
What a dead goliath grouper, killed by an industrial spill, tells us about cerebrocentrism and our denied kinship with other species.
Environment
Mutual Aid Is the Norm
Ray Nayler discusses his new novel and the ‘rhizome of care’ that links us with nonhuman species.
Hell in a Go Bag
Jorie Graham takes a sparer approach to hell in her newest poetry collection.
Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’
Kohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.
Consequences Accrue Downstream
The ongoing fight to restore the Colorado River Delta.
Oh No Babe, We Gotta Go
One poet’s journal entries during the 2025 L.A. fires.
What the ‘Footprint’ Forgets
Radhika Subramaniam unsettles the Anthropocene’s dominant metaphor for humans’ impact on the earth.
Petromodernity and the New Normal
The wild fire that unites Iran and Southern California.
Is There Such a Thing as Death?
Deb Olin Unferth’s new novel counts down to the end of humanity.
Plants in Focus
Ildikó Enyedi’s film ‘Silent Friend’ daringly manipulates slow time to center a gingko tree protagonist among several generations of human companions.
Competing Visions of China’s Distant Past
Through examinations of ecological impacts or material objects, two books about China’s ancient past offer very different perspectives on its place in the world today.
Losing Our Cruelty
Sangamithra Iyer discusses strategies for living ethically, incorporating veganism, nonviolence, and truth into ‘fractal responsibility.’
