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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis

Can fiction make us more optimistic about tackling Earth’s environmental emergency? These eco-focused books have hope at their core

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2025

Next manuscript by Amitav Ghosh to be kept sealed for 89 years

The Indian author is the next Future Library writer, set to submit a secret work to be locked in a library until 2114

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2025

Robert Macfarlane’s new book is a plea to feel the pulse of our rivers

Suggesting that a river could be alive has the potential to change everything. Robert Macfarlane, one of Britain’s best-read writers on the natural environment, has done just this in his latest book.

The Conversation · May 1, 2025

‘Telling truths about this moment’: climate change author Jeff Goodell curates vital exhibition

The acclaimed writer takes on a new challenge with his first art show, bringing together work and writing that tells a long history of environmental change

The Guardian - US · Aug 29, 2023

Interview | Amitav Ghosh on his new book ‘Smoke and Ashes’

Amitav Ghosh talks about the power of poppy in the world and how it continues to be more important than we realise. He reflects on his Bengali upbringing and how it has shaped his writing, and his most ambitious work, the ‘Ibis Trilogy’.

The Hindu · Aug 4, 2023

Amitav Ghosh to talk on his book and the hidden history of opium at BIC

On Sunday, the Bangalore International Centre (BIC), in Domlur in collaboration with the Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) and Harper Collins, will host author Amitav Ghosh and historian Ramchandra Guha for a discussion on Ghosh’s book, Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories.

The Hindu · Jul 21, 2023

Pure petrofiction: why writers will keep drilling for stories about oil

From tales of ‘hissing’ oilmen to ‘crying’ trees, novels about petroleum and its devastating effect on communities and the environment are powerful fiction for our times – with the potential for prophecy

The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2023

Amitav Ghosh's new non-fiction book 'Smoke and Ashes' to release in July 2023

Award-winning author Amitav Ghosh's new book 'Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories' is all set to be released in India in July this year.

The Times of India · Apr 26, 2023

Ambition, corruption and guerilla gardening: Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is a horror story for our time

Almost every review to date mentions the brutal argument that closes the first section of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood. In a novel filled with incident – disasters, chases, one very bad acid trip, general maleficence – it is telling that this scene lingers.

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2023

Akram Khan puts nature front and centre in new production of The Jungle Book

A NEW work by the acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan is always a highly anticipated event in the world of dance-theatre. The creator of such…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 21, 2022