Gabi Martínez
Véronique Tadjo: ‘Urbanites are disconnected from death’
The author of In the Company of Men has always enjoyed Africa's diverse nature, but in 2014 that world was rocked by Ebola, in a terrifying epidemic that cannot simply be forgotten
‘La Casa de Verano’: a book that feels like home
In Masashi Matsuie’s novel, friendship, love, and creation unfold surrounded by beehives—nourished by Japan’s volcanic and unstable soil
The all-consuming flame
In the wake of the devastating forest fires in Los Angeles, author John Vaillant explains what he learned by writing a book on our species’ burning addiction and how it is linked to the oil industry and evangelical religion
‘We are really in for the fight of our lives, where surely, all life matters’
Australian Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright says there is no safe haven from global collapse. Yet she believes that strong, voluminous literature can help us make sense of what we are going through
Delta: how many letters does it take to describe a mud teeming with life?
A journey through the literature of the great deltas, true frontiers of Nature, where the end (of the river) meets the beginning (of the sea)
‘The crime novel era has passed. Now is the time for stories about flies and eels’
A life studying insects on a small island has proved a literary inspiration for one Swedish writer
A life studying insects on a small island has proved a literary inspiration for one Swedish writer
‘The crime novel era has passed. Now is the time for stories about flies and eels.’
A life studying insects on a small island has proved a literary inspiration for one Swedish writer
‘People are more outraged by Notre-Dame burning than by an Amazon river being poisoned’
Peruvian author Joseph Zárate, an Indigenous writer with an international reputation, discovered his own forest through the memories of his grandmother
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