JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology
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Climate of fear
The Uninhabitable Earth paints a deeply disturbing picture of what lies in store if global warming goes unchecked, says IAN SINCLAIR
Existential crisis
MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones
JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system
MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star
MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
by David Wallace-Wells
(Allen Lane, £20)
CLEARLY intended to shock, last month the Guardian published a report warning that climate risks were similar to the 2008 financial crash.
The problem with this formulation, to partially quote the soon-to-be-iconic first sentence of The Uninhabitable Earth, is that “it is worse, much worse” than this. “What climate change has in store is not... a Great Recession or a Great Depression but, in economic terms, a Great Dying,” David Wallace-Wells argues in his book.
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