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I am a historian by training and have spent my career of nearly forty years studying human violence, and economic change and development. This has brought me to many dark places, to the human capacity to destroy. But all this work has also brought me to the study of those who resisted, all the people who envisioned different ways of being in the world, different futures. I have written many books on these topics. My latest, The Killing Age, is in many respects the summation of work I have been doing since the early 1980s.
I love this book because it is so impassioned and is such a call-to-action.
Like so many of us, I am better at complaining and criticizing than doing. I like the way Malm looks us squarely in the face and asks us: “Well, what are you going to do about climate change?”
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven't we moved beyond peaceful protest?
In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Reading The Mountain in the Sea felt like sitting beside a wiser writer and watching him peel apart the idea of consciousness with his bare hands. I kept pausing not because I was confused, but because Nayler’s restraint made me rethink my own approach to storytelling—how much I explain, how much I trust a reader to reach back. The way he writes about communication made me realize how clumsy I can be on the page when I’m trying too hard to make a point. Nayler lets two minds brush against each other and trusts the friction to illuminate everything. That quiet bravery, that willingness to leave space, is something I’m still trying to learn. The book left me with this lingering pressure in my chest, the kind that comes from encountering a writer who’s several steps ahead of you, yet generous enough to make you feel like you can follow.…
'I loved this novel's brain and heart' DAVID MITCHELL, AUTHOR OF CLOUD ATLAS
'A first-rate speculative thriller, by turns fascinating, brutal, powerful, and redemptive' JEFF VANDERMEER, AUTHOR OF ANNIHILATION
There are creatures in the water of Con Dao. To the locals, they're monsters. To the corporate owners of the island, an opportunity. To the team of three sent to study them, a revelation.
Their minds are unlike ours. Their bodies are malleable, transformable, shifting. They can communicate. And they want us to leave.
When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con…
