Why Anthropocene?
TMR’s Literary Editor reflects on what created the Anthropocene—capitalism, colonialism, ecocide—and the possibility of undoing it.
The Ossuary of Evolving Forms—selected poems
These selected poems collapse the boundaries between human and nonhuman life to what remains of a species that imagines itself all-powerful.
Elemental Intifada: How Palestine Unmakes the Anthropocene
A writer reimagines the Anthropocene through Palestine’s land, where the elements rise in an elemental intifada against settler colonialism.
Poems from When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America
A new collection folds grief, displacement, and colonial violence into meditations on the personal and political, the human and animal.
Event Horizon—an excerpt
In this haunting work of speculative fiction, a former greengrocer’s quiet rituals are interrupted by a devastating act of state violence.
Hunter, Trickster, Gatherer
The human will toward life meets the inhuman algorithms hunting people down like prey in Israel’s ravaging of Lebanon.
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The Anthropocene Book List
This SWANA-specific reading list includes works centered on changing landscapes, environmental crisis, displacement, and resistance.
“The Long Middle”—a short story
This unsettling short story set in an entirely possible future asks: what would make you turn back in a revolution that must never stop moving?
“Wardens of the World”—an excerpt from Pure Beast
In this speculative work, a group of “wardens” searching among fossils and bones discovers what the state failed to eradicate.
The Lemon Tree Family—an excerpt
This exclusive translated excerpt blends realism and the surreal against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Sudan.
Weeds of the Anthropocene: A View from Palestine
An exhibition of Palestinian artists highlights violent environmental imaginaries and the problematic symbolism of resilience.
What the Stones Remember: A Conversation with Dala Nasser
Nasser’s body of work considers witnessing without testimony, the persistence of memory, and art’s possibilities in the face of loss.