“The Burning Earth,” by Sunil Amrith; “The Notebook,” by Roland Allen; “Enlightenment,” by Sarah Perry; and “The Sequel,” by Jean Hanff Korelitz.
The Burning Earth, by Sunil Amrith (Norton). In this expansive book, a historian places the earths ecological plight in the context of human exploitation. Amriths inventory of crucial events begins w… [+1288 chars]