STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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WORSE THAN YOU THINK: Global temperature change in the last 50 years
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
“IT IS worse, much worse, than you think.” From its first sentence, The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (Penguin Books) by US writer David Wallace-Wells is a deeply frightening read in chronicling the existential threat the climate crisis poses to humanity.
He notes that all the commitments made at the 2015 Paris UN climate summit by the 195 signatories would still mean a deadly 3.2°C of warming by 2100. If this isn’t terrifying enough, he explains that, as of 2018, “not a single major industrial nation was on track to fulfil the commitments it made in the Paris treaty.”
Answering Amitav Ghosh’s call for more fiction devoted to climate change, John Lanchester’s allegorical novel The Wall (Faber & Faber) considers how British society and politics could react to a climatic event called “the change.”
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