The masterful Australian writer has become a kind of prophet – and his dramatic and moving new essay collection challenges us not to look away Living on the western edge of Australia, Winton has been an eloquent climate-change activist for decades.
Bodley Head, pp. 336, £30 The devastating fire at the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Museum provides the arresting opening to Ben Dark’s Green Kingdom. Dark’s first book, The Grove, was a charming wander through ‘19½ front gardens’ on a single street in Camberwell. In Green…
Audible Inc., the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, announced the November 5th launch of Exoplanet, a new Audible Original sci-fi thriller executive produced by #1 New York Times bestselling author Andy Weir (The Martian, Project Hail Mary) and written…
Full list of articles featuring There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel in BookPage. There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel Jason Pargin merges a serious eye for human nature with the sort of antics you might expect…
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Cristina Fernández Cubas after the Cervantes: "Short stories are like an unfaithful lover, if you are not aware of them they go off with someone else" Diari ARA
Climate-related literature (cli-fi) is becoming increasingly popular, ranging from stories of flooded cities and wildfires to how families are adapting to a changing environment. Wildfires and unusual weather events are occurring in some areas. (Illustration: Pexels) Against the backdrop of…
[This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read…
In her new novel, former Texas Monthly staffer Karen Olsson grapples with the cagey ocelot. Katy Vine is a distinguished writer for Texas Monthly. I sat down to talk with Karen in late October. Texas Monthly: How did you get…
Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic By Neil Shea; HarperCollins, 2025; 240 pages; $28. The Arctic has loomed in the European imagination since Greek times, and even a hundred years ago it remained a distant realm to…
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