The Latest Breaking News from Robert Macfarlane

Caroline Lucas: ‘Rory Stewart finds Westminster as dysfunctional as I do’

The MP and author on reading her political rival’s memoir, the wonders of Robert Macfarlane and the joy of Barbara Kingsolver

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2024

Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground

The long read: The ocean’s depths are not some remote alien realm, but are in fact intimately entangled with every other part of the planet. We should treat them that way

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2024

Arts Council England says funding will not be removed for ‘political’ artists

ACE had been under pressure to revise guidance in January which focused on ‘reputational risk’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024

Authors join call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

More than 150 writers and industry professionals are asking the firm, which is a leading sponsor of UK literary festivals, to drop their investments

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2023

The Observer view on the felling of Britain’s famous Sycamore Gap tree

The Hadrian’s Wall landmark was symbolic of pride and resistance. Its loss should serve as a poignant reminder of the precarity of nature

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

Sycamore Gap tree attack is part of war on nature in UK, says poet

Robert Macfarlane says tree’s felling was part of hostile culture and calls for forest to be planted in its honour

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2023

Cormac McCarthy: a powerful writer who beautifully wrote about apocalypse and extinction

Endings, extinctions, last things preoccupied Cormac McCarthy from the start to the recent close of his 60-year career as a writer of fiction and, occasionally, drama for stage or screen. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), ends with the word “dust”. His final novel, Stella Maris (2022), allows only…

The Conversation · Jun 16, 2023

Cormac McCarthy remembered: ‘His work will sing down the centuries’

The celebrated US author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men has died. Here, leading contemporaries and critics pay tribute to him

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2023

Stephen King leads tributes to The Road author Cormac McCarthy: ‘The greatest American novelist of my time’

US author remembered for novels including ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2023

‘The greatest American novelist of my time’: Stephen King leads tributes to The Road author Cormac McCarthy

US author remembered for novels including ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2023