Wild Authors: Anna Burke
This month, I spotlight Anna Burke and her novel Compass Rose (Bywater Books, 2018), a dystopian high-seas adventure that looks at climate
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Wild Authors: Jennifer Dance
For this post, I travel to North America to look at historical and modern Canada, and the environmental, social, and
Wild Authors: Ilija Trojanow
For this post, I explore the Antarctic via the novel The Lamentations of Zeno (Verso Books, 2016) by Ilija Trojanow. I had
Wild Authors: Rajat Chaudhuri
I was thrilled to talk with Rajat Chaudhuri, author of The Butterfly Effect (September 3, 2018, Olive Turtle, Niyogi), which Scroll.in describes as a novel
Wild Authors: Emin Madi
Today we travel to Borneo, to Sabah’s Lost World, a wondrous and isolated basin that surprisingly has not been too
Wild Authors: Renato Redentor Constantino
In this feature, I look at, and re-enjoy, Agam, a 2014 book project from the Philippines. Thanks very much to Redentor Constantino, from
Wild Authors: Evie Gaughan
I still feel Ireland every day, though it’s been two years since I visited the country. Yet, I cannot quite
Wild Authors: Edward Stanton
In this feature, I cover the novel Wide as the Wind, by author Edward Stanton, who landed on the idea for his
Wild Authors: Fábio Fernandes
I’ve recently been enjoying Adam Kirsch’s The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century. In his book, Kirsch states: The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived – not through the abolition of place, but as a theme by which place is mediated. Life lived here is experienced in its profound and often unsettling connections with life lived elsewhere, and everywhere. The local gains dignity, and significance, insofar as it can be seen as a part of a worldwide phenomenon. One of the things eco-fiction is concerned about is the environmental destruction of the planet. Global eco-fiction lifts the gaze above the norm and into a worldly perspective in which authors and artists understand that ecological collapse is both a global concern and a local one. In essence,
Wild Authors: Brian Adams
In this spotlight on climate change authors I talk with Brian Adams, who has become a prolific fiction writer covering