Category: General and Theory

Eleanor Keisman, New Animal (Broken Tribe Press, 2025) 115 pp. $12.95 Pb. ISBN: 9781965412312. Eleanor Keisman’s debut novella, New Animal (2025), is an evocative climate science fiction tale of survival that is less about escaping climate distress and more about remembering the importance of relying on one another despite it all. What makes Keisman’s cli-fi…

Lucinda Cole, The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) xii, 260 pp. £87.50 ebook £109.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3031927928 Lucinda Cole’s The Fifth Plague: Cattle, Contagion, and the Medical Posthumanities, published as part of the series, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, takes up the vexing and urgent question of how…

Kate Foster and Molly Crozier (eds), The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation (New York: Routledge, 2026) 216pp. £116.00 Hb. £34.39 e-book. ISBN: 9781032895871 The subtitle of The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture – Cultures of Automation – is a useful shorthand for what this collection most…

Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Ahuvia Kahane, Simon King and Esther Leslie (eds), Walking in Cities: Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments (New York: Routledge, 2024) 352 pp. $180.00 Hb. $52.99 Pb. $39.74 e-book. ISBN: 978-1-032-41260-3 ‘Walking in Cities’ is perhaps one of the simplest yet most evocative titles one might give to a book about urban life. As a…

Jeremy Howick, The Power of Placebos: How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care (Johns Hopkins University Press: 2023) 320 pp. $32.95 Hb. ISBN: 9781421446387 Can the solution to the opioid crisis—and perhaps even the superbug problem—lie in using less medication, without compromising pain relief or curability? Professor and Director of Empathic…

May Joseph and Sofia Varino, Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023) 97pp. £38.39 Hb. ISBN: 9781032326405 In Aquatopia: Climate Interventions, May Joseph and Sofia Varino present a concise yet conceptually ambitious reflection on climate performance, colonial histories and water ecologies. Situated within Routledge’s Critical Climate Studies series, the book documents and theorises the site-specific performances of…

Rebecca A. Durham, Be Still Mere Molecule (Raleigh, NC, USA: Broken Tribe Press, 2025) 120 pp. $14.95 Pb. ISBN: 9781965412107 How does a poet witness the world? How does a scientist? What if a person were to be both at once? Would that experience of the in-betweenness of both worlds aid them in finding, perhaps…