Science, Technology & Environment

★ In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times

In an age of doomscrolling clickbait, atrocity porn, and the three Ts – Trump, tariffs, terror – anyone could be forgiven for concluding the world is in a state of perpetual crisis. Responses to such ... Read More »

July 23, 2025 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment, Social Sciences

Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology

By Ian Thomas Shaw and Tim Niedermann (eds.)

The future. Since at least the publication of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine in 1895, it’s always right over there. That’s true for me, absolutely. I grew up with space-age Tang – flavour crystals that astronauts mixed ... Read More »

April 9, 2025 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy

By Ronald J. Deibert

“If you own a device and connect to a cellular service anywhere in the world, you’re trackable.” That’s the sobering assessment of Ronald J. Deibert, someone who knows whereof he speaks. As the founder and ... Read More »

February 5, 2025 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past

By Taras Grescoe

The climate crisis has forced us to re-examine the ways we feed ourselves and to question the best practices for what and how to eat – and especially, why to eat. Author Taras Grescoe (Bottomfeeder, ... Read More »

November 29, 2023 | Filed under: Food & Drink, History, Science, Technology & Environment

Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth

By Claire Horn

Most people who have experienced pregnancy have likely at some point had a thought, however fleeting, that they wish someone – or something – else could take over for a while and grow their ... Read More »

October 25, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places

By Christopher Pollon

In a disturbing case of the cure possibly proving as deadly as the disease, Christopher Pollon’s Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places provides an eloquent, clear-eyed warning that, absent a radical ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest

By Amanda Lewis

When Amanda Lewis, a burnt-out book editor, and “completionist,” set out to visit all the Champion trees in British Columbia, she was also tracking something lost during a “difficult” relationship with her goal-and-checklist life. Academic ... Read More »

May 24, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Science, Technology & Environment

Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast

By John Vaillant

Early on in Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant makes one thing very clear – “there has never been a better time to be a fire.” The latest book from the ... Read More »

May 10, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

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