Jessie Greengrass

Nov 10, 2024 | rashmee.com | Jessie Greengrass |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Rashmee Roshan Lall

COP29, the UN conference on climate change, which is arguably the world’s most important climate negotiation event, begins roughly a week after the election of climate sceptic Donald Trump. Trump has promised to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement once again, start up massive oil drilling and terminate what he calls the green ‘scam’. Excerpts from This Week, Those Books on how, whatever happens, we are one world…of disasters and climate denial.

Apr 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jessie Greengrass

To write fiction about art is notoriously hard. Inventing bad art is easy, an excellent parlour game, but to imagine a successful artist you have to create a body of work that justifies their success, and that’s a different matter. In Hagstone, Irish critic and essayist Sinéad Gleeson’s first novel, this is done deftly and convincingly. The book centres on Nell, an artist living and working on an island a half day’s journey from the Irish mainland.

May 2, 2023 | blogarama.com | Jessie Greengrass

What is Cli-Fi? Cli-Fi, or Climate Fiction, deals with the effects of climate change on human society. It is often categorized as a subset of Science Fiction. Cli-Fi explores how humans will interact with the (often devastating) effects of climate change.