Hemingway, Ecology and Culture: Re-reading Hemingway in the Anthropocene
By Lay Sion NG. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
The Anthropocene has ushered in remarkable progress and unprecedented challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life-especially the most vulnerable. In search of new solutions in this open access book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpected source: Ernest Hemingway.
Hemingway’s ecological perspective is often overlooked in his work. Hemingway, Ecology and Culture expands on emerging scholarship, exploring Hemingway’s non-anthropocentric view of non-human entities to offer fresh insights into the author and his nonhuman characters in his long-length fiction ...
Materiality of Air
Tatiana Konrad, editor. University of Exeter Press, 2025.
Exploring air, airborne phenomena, and elemental representation, Materiality of Air dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises. Understanding air’s materiality is essential to outlining clear solutions to the current challenges and to generating new meanings of what constitutes an environmentally safe and healthy future. The dual nature of air makes it a rich field for metaphor and a potent subject to think with: ...
Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19
Tatiana Konrad editor. Michigan State University Press, 2025.
Informed by transdisciplinary research in social and environmental justice, Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19 is a contribution to the scholarly discourse as well as a form of activism for environmental, climate, and health justice. Using race and Indigeneity as an analytical lens, the book explores how justice in the era of climate change and COVID-19 is envisioned, depicted, and achieved. With a focus largely on humans and environments, its ...
Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics
By Helen Kapstein. West Virginia UP, 2025
Petroforms are the new aesthetic objects that emerge from art’s encounter with petroleum, read here specifically through the Nigerian experience of oil extraction, production, and attendant devastations. By grounding its argument in site-specific examples, Petroforms is able to make historically and culturally precise claims while at the same time advancing petrocriticism as a field. Its author, Helen Kapstein, brings her background in postcolonial literary and cultural studies to bear on a range of texts, from film to ...
The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations
By Mark Laird. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2024.
Between 1760 and 1840, exotic plants were imported from across Britain’s empire and were lavishly depicted in periodicals and scientific treatises. Mark Laird’s provocative new book – part art history, part polemic – weaves fine art, botanical illustration, gender studies and previously unpublished archival material into a political and ethical account of Britain’s heritage, showing how plants were not only integral to English gardens of the Georgian and Victorian eras but also ...
The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep Sea Life
By Stacy Alaimo. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea?
As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating the discovery of countless new species. Sorting through the implications of this strange paradox, Stacy Alaimo explores the influence this newfound intimacy with the deep sea might have on our broader ...
Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far
By Simmons Buntin. Trinity University Press, 2025.
In Satellite, Simmons Buntin delves into the idea of belonging—in place, time, family, and community—in 16 essays written over nearly two decades. The pieces range throughout the Desert Southwest, on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, and as far afield as Mount Saint Helens, Montana, Vermont, Sweden, and even the moon (if a telescope atop Kitt Peak counts). Buntin examines the beauty and challenges of raising a family and creating more sustainable communities in the Sonoran Desert—and, ...
Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World
By Lowell Duckert. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European texts to trace how representations of frigidity from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have contributed to historical understandings of climate and contemporary debates on climate change. Arguing that human culture and science are, in fact, indebted to the cold, Duckert suggests that these early depictions offer critical terms for advancing the aims of climate-change activism and assisting in counterapocalyptic thinking.
An ...
The Place That Is Coming to Us
By J.D. Smith. Broadstone Books, 2025.
The Place That Is Coming to Us addresses our frequently troubled human relationship with the non-human world using a variety of free-verse styles as well as prose poetry. The topics include climate change, habitat loss, and species extinction, along with ecogrief at large, and the collection’s final poems discuss how we might return to a more collegial relationship with the natural world.
J.D. Smith is the author of poetry collections including Catalogs for Food Lovers (Kelsay Books, 2021), The Killing ...
Fault Lines
Nora Shalaway Carpenter. Running Press/Hachette, Sept. 2023.
Winner of the 2024 Green Earth Book Award for YA Fiction, a 2024 Whippoorwill Honor for outstanding rural fiction, and a 2024 Nautilus Book Award Gold medal, FAULT LINES tells the intertwined story of two rural teens―one with a secret energetic connection to the earth, suffering immensely from damage caused by fracking―and the other depending on fracking completely, his mother’s pipelining job being the only thing keeping them off the street.
Riveting, powerful, and a little bit magical, ...