As we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month, here is a list of new and recent work by women writers whose environmental imaginations keep us all inspired, impassioned, and ready for whatever comes next.
Following orchids in The Farming of Bones, a novel by Edwidge Danticat, exposes tangled webs of care, violence, and the lasting power of the colonial imagination.
A science fiction novel offers a genre-bending perspective that helps us think about wildness, purity, and invasion in new and strange ways.
What happens when our changing world starts to look more and more unreal? The recent boom in novels that depict climate change pits the real against the magical, surreal, and fantastical.
In American popular culture, from the colonial era to the present, women who venture out into wild places cannot escape the strictures of gender.
A writer’s poignant reflections on care and healing. What might happen if we all turned toward, instead of away?
A new book surveys 150 novels about climate change and makes the case for the virtues of cli-fi.
The Center for Culture, History, and Environment’s Place-Based Workshop on the Mississippi River this summer inspires reflections on Mali’s critically important Niger Delta floodplain.
What did ancient people think about human impacts on the environment? Four passages offer perspectives from Greece and Rome.
CHE’s upcoming place-based workshop elicits questions—and several suggestions—about how to navigate a river and its watershed.
