Climate change in fiction

Cover image for Dream State by Eric Puchner

Dream State by Eric Puchner: ‘Marriage, the only adventure open to the cowardly’  

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I’m sucker for author endorsements from favourite writers. Eric Puchner’s Dream State comes with lots of them including Danielle Evans and Andrew Sean Greer, but it was Alice McDermott’s that swung it for me. It’s a doorstopper which takes its readers from wedding preparations in the late twentieth century through to the mid-twenty-first before coming […]

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Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts: ‘Our time, perhaps, is shorter than we think’  

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I spotted Madeleine Watts’s Elegy, Southwest on social media thanks to a passionately enthusiastic post from its editor. The premise of a road novel set in the desert of the American Southwest, a landscape which I’ve visited several times and loved, made me put up my hand immediately. Watts’s novel follows Eloise and Lewis over

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