The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Climate of fear
The Uninhabitable Earth paints a deeply disturbing picture of what lies in store if global warming goes unchecked, says IAN SINCLAIR
Existential crisis
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
by David Wallace-Wells
(Allen Lane, £20)
CLEARLY intended to shock, last month the Guardian published a report warning that climate risks were similar to the 2008 financial crash.
The problem with this formulation, to partially quote the soon-to-be-iconic first sentence of The Uninhabitable Earth, is that “it is worse, much worse” than this. “What climate change has in store is not... a Great Recession or a Great Depression but, in economic terms, a Great Dying,” David Wallace-Wells argues in his book.
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IAN SINCLAIR recommends an important and timely book for climate politics right now and in the future
Reaching co-operation is supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of global climate governance, argues LISA VANHALA
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR