Alexandria, Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth’s Buckmaster trilogy, a much looser series, also draws to a close this year. It began in 2014 with The … Read more
Category Archives: Historical
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Michael Zapata
Through litanies of the names of overlooked poets and science fiction writers of color, through multiple survival stories from New … Read more
Klimakvartetten Series, Maja Lunde
We originally posted The History of Bees in June 2017 and then updated this post in December 2019 with the … Read more
The Second Sleep, Robert Harris
It’s within this strange and ambiguous historical setting that Harris has also fashioned a cautionary tale for today — a … Read more
The Hills Reply, Tarjei Vesaas
Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan Tarjei Vesaas’s final work before his death, this episodic novel drifts between dream-like abstraction and vivid … Read more
Greenwood, Michael Christie
In an era of so much uncertainty, it is comforting to see novelists begin to work through the biggest issue … Read more
The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial … Read more
She Would Be King, Wayétu Moore
Animals have inspired some of the most memorable moments in African storytelling. In 17th century Ethiopia, Galawdewos repeatedly relies on … Read more
The Forbidden Place, Susanne Jansson
A book, television show, or movie set somewhere in Scandinavia leads the reader or viewer to expect dark, foreboding landscapes … Read more
Bangkok Wakes to Rain, Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your … Read more
The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
The Hungry Tide was published in 2004 but is still getting accolades in the media and has celebrated many reprints … Read more
Jodi Lynn Anderson’s Midnight at the Electric, Review by Kimberly Christensen
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson Hardcover, 259 pages Published June 13, 2017 by HarperCollins Reviewed by Kimberly … Read more
The Wild Birds, Emily Strelow
Emily Strelow’s mesmerizing debut stitches together a sprawling saga of the feral Northwest across farmlands and deserts and generations: an … Read more
Mother of Rain, Karen Spears Zacharias
Using the idiom of the time and place–a small, close-knit, East Tennessee community as the Depression yields to World War … Read more
Cave Walker, Donelle Dreese
My hope is that Cave Walker fits into contemporary eco-fiction in the sense that nature occupies a central space in … Read more