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STRANGER THAN FICTION Melissa Gismondi

Melissa Gismondi — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:59:27 +0000

A few weeks ago, I was working on a story which features a character overwhelmed at the crises facing our world. I typed the words livable future because I wanted the character to engage with the absurdity of such a phrase, the fact that the possibility of it is still — shockingly — up [...]

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On Writing the UnthinkableAmitav Ghosh and Liz Jensen

Amitav Ghosh — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:21:15 +0000

In your 2016 book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable you take contemporary literature to task for failing to address the climate and ecological crisis. Have fiction writers woken up since then – and if so, what are the most important changes you’ve seen in the literary landscape since 2016? Has the [...]

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Listen: Parables of Nutmegs and GenocideAmitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:00:05 +0000

Amitav Ghosh is an influential Indian writer and environmental thinker who has won many honours for his fiction. A former academic, he’s the author of several substantial works of non-fiction, including The Great Derangement, an exploration of literature’s failure to address the climate and ecological emergency. His new work, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in [...]

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Shapes of our fearTessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:00:43 +0000

Amitav Ghosh’s book The Great Derangement was published in 2016. It’s a moving polemic, accusing contemporary novelists of failing to find the right forms, or the necessary urgency, in addressing the climate crisis. And it’s a crucial intervention. Which novelist hasn’t been anguished by this widening gap, like a chasm opening under our own [...]

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READ: They All Run TogetherJoin us for On the Brink: Mon 30th Nov, 7pm GMT

Alex Lockwood — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:10:07 +0000

This year for Remembrance Day for Lost Species, November 30th, Writers Rebel are bringing together 20 writers from around the globe including Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ben Okri, Homero Aridjis and others to each tell the story of one animal. Please join us for this free landmark event. Below, Writers Rebel member Alex [...]

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Listen: Writers Rebel Bookclub with Amitav Ghosh

Rebel Writers Podcast — Fri, 22 May 2020 14:48:30 +0000

We were thrilled to get together with Amitav Ghosh to talk about his book The Great Derangement, a seminal work about colonialism, Climate Crisis and much more. It was published in 2015, pre-dating Extinction Rebellion and the Youth Strikes. There follows a discussion with Mothiur Rahman (XR Muslims, Guardianship and Visioning Circles), Ami Amlani (XR [...]

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