Spilled Oil: On Lydia Kiesling’s “Mobility”
What Mobility offers is a model for centering the personal in a way that amplifies, rather than obfuscates, its political context.
Ecological (Re)Production: Socialism in the Anthropocene
At its best, Climate Change as Class War reads as a potential roadmap for the climate politics that lies beyond liberalism’s shortcomings.
Fiction of Our Climate: On Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future"
Because inequality threatens stability only in certain political systems, and because people can’t agree on morality, inequality by default becomes considered an economic rather than a political or moral problem.
Fiction of Our Climate: On Imbolo Mbue's "How Beautiful We Were"
“But these Americans, with their abundance of knowledge, how can they be powerless too?”
Fiction of Our Climate: On Karl Ove Knausgaard's "The Morning Star"
Another contender for a literary novel that may offer an adequate appraisal of and response to our climate crisis is Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morning Star.
