The Elusive Challenge of Climate Justice Rebecca Marwege, Nikhar Gaikwad, and Joerg Schaefer
The newly edited volume *Climate Justice Now* gathers scholars from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities to map the multifaceted challenge of climate justice. It argues that equitable climate action requires more than technical fixes, highlighting the ethical and political dilemmas of geoengineering and the exclusion of marginalized voices. Case studies range from U.S. farmworkers suffering extreme heat to Chinese pomelo farmers whose local terminology blocks climate‑damage compensation. The book positions interdisciplinary dialogue as essential for translating climate‑justice theory into effective policy.
Racing to Unify All of Humankind Kelly Oliver
Kelly Oliver’s essay reflects on how iconic space imagery—from Apollo’s Blue Marble to Artemis II—has repeatedly sparked a paradoxical mix of planetary unity and competitive ambition. The Apollo era framed the Earth as a fragile, shared home, fueling the early environmental...
Why Multidisciplinary Climate Modeling Matters Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, and Lizzie Yarina
The newly released volume *Climate Changed: Models and the Built World* brings together climate scientists, designers, historians, and urban planners to examine how climate models intersect with the built environment. Editors Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, and Lizzie Yarina explain that models...
Fifteen Must-Read Books for Earth Month 2026
The article presents a curated list of fifteen books released for Earth Month 2026, each addressing a different facet of climate change. The selection covers climate advocacy, scientific modeling, conservation of biodiversity, and disaster risk management, reflecting this year’s renewable‑energy‑focused...
10 Must-Read Books for National Poetry Month 2026
The Academy of American Poets marks the 30th anniversary of National Poetry Month with a curated list of ten books that explore poetry’s intersections with labor, logic, digital community, public life, and climate change. Titles range from Kristin Grogan’s "Stitch, Unstitch,"...
Listening to the Earth Radical Romanticism for a Time of Ecological Crisis Mark S. Cladis
Mark S. Cladis’s new book *Radical Romanticism* re‑examines the Romantic tradition as an ethical imagination that intertwines democracy, religion, and ecological concern. By juxtaposing European Romantics such as Wordsworth and Shelley with Black and Indigenous thinkers like Du Bois, Hurston, and...
Kristin Grogan on Stitch, Unstitch
Kristin Grogan’s new book *Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work* examines how early‑twentieth‑century modernist poets grappled with the meaning of labor amid radical social upheaval. Using a Marxist‑feminist framework, she analyzes five poets—Ezra Pound, Lola Ridge, Langston...
A New Reptile Is Discovered, and Ten Poachers Book Flights To. . . Craig Stanford
A tiny mud turtle, now named the Vallarta mud turtle, was formally described in 2018 and is estimated to number only a few hundred individuals in the swamps of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Within days of the scientific announcement, poachers descended...
Nicole M. Morris Johnson on The Souths in Her
Nicole M. Morris Johnson’s new book *The Souths in Her* examines how Black women writers and choreographers across the United States, Caribbean, and West Africa forged innovative expressive forms. The title, drawn from Ntozake Shange, pluralizes “South” to capture both geographic...
Dorian Rhea Debussy on Women, Queer People, and the National Security State
Author Dorian Rhea Debussy’s new book, The Lavender Bans, chronicles a century of anti‑LGBTQ+ policies in the U.S. military and intelligence community, weaving personal anecdotes with archival research. The narrative spotlights figures such as fashion executive Dorothy Shaver, CIA‑denied contractor...
If the European Novel Thinks Like a Person, the African Novel Thinks Like a World Ainehi Edoro
The essay contrasts Virginia Woolf’s individual‑centric narrative model with a distinctly African approach that treats the novel as a thinking world. It argues that African fiction distributes agency across ecosystems, ancestors, and material forces rather than anchoring meaning in a...
Diana Martha Louis on Colored Insane
Diana Martha Louis’s new book *Colored Insane* uncovers how nineteenth‑century American asylums labeled Black patients as the “colored insane” and used psychiatric theory to reinforce racial and gender hierarchies. Drawing on scarce archival records from the Georgia Lunatic Asylum, she foregrounds the...