Bike Month Editors’ Picks
May is Bike Month in the United States. In this “cyclisticle,” Edge Effects editors kick off the celebration with an eclectic range of bike reflections and recommendations …
Edge Effects, One Million Views Later
Past and present managing editors of Edge Effects reflect on the magazine’s history and celebrate how far it has come since launching in 2014 …
Faculty Favorites: Books That Go Beyond the Classroom
Six scholars from campuses across the country recommend new environmental books about the blue humanities, environmental justice, the histories of bikes and blockades, and more …
2021 Year in Review
For our final post of 2021, Edge Effects editors look back on a memorable year of essays, poems, and podcast conversations about the environment that inspired us and offered hope during another year of pandemic life …
Faculty Favorites: Books for a Return to Campus
Seven scholars from a variety of fields recommend new books and classics to read this fall, with topics ranging from Indigenous resistance and Afrofuturism to Irish coastal history and nineteenth-century surfing …
Faculty Favorites: What to Read (and Teach) in the Environmental Humanities Now
Seven environmental humanities scholars share the reading on their syllabus that they are most excited to teach this spring …
2020 Year in Review
Reflecting on a long and difficult year, the editorial board recommends some of the essays and podcasts we’ve published in 2020 that have provided us new ways of looking at and thinking about the past, present, and future …
Nine Horror Films on Haunted Places and Contested Spaces
Feed your brain and your Halloween horror habit with these nine spooky film and TV recommendations with extra credit readings and eco-interpretations offered by Edge Effects board members …
Faculty Favorites: Reading Through the Pandemic
Six scholars recommend books and essays they’re teaching this fall to navigate the pandemics of coronavirus and racial injustice …
Living Writers on Revolution
It is not enough to read about revolution. That is just a start. We recommend voices that echo beyond the bookshelf with accounts of protests, riots, and movements …
Caring, at a Distance
What is it to be in this body, here, now? Addie Hopes recommends what to read while we shelter in place and rethink what it means to care for one another …
Edge Effects Imagines the Future
What does the future hold? In these essays and interviews, contributors to Edge Effects speculate about the futures of life on this planet …












