Hummingbird Salamander – An idea that won’t go away
Reviewing Jeff Vandermeer’s latest novel, Hummingbird Salamander, Jack Pickering finds not only a thrilling and unsettling work of climate fiction, but also a genre bending critique of modern capitalism and its destruction of nature.
Can one person change the world?
Jack P writes about the value and limitations of two films, First Reformed and Woman at War, from an emerging genre of environmentalist lone warrior films.
‘Climate change is a woodchipper into which metaphors are fed’
‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ puts forward a radical pessimism toward climate breakdown that calls for action while shying away from any critique of neoliberalism.
Review: Chasing the harvest
Jack Pickering reviews a powerful collection of stories of migrant workers in California’s agricultural sector.