:<i>Vulnerable Earth: The Literature of Climate Crisis</i>

Literatures of the global climate crisis make up an ever-growing body of work, one attended by a similarly prolific corpus of scholarship in ecocriticism and the environmental humanities.Pramod K. Nayar's Vulnerable Earth: The Literature of Climate Crisis ventures into this crowded terrain with a bold effort at panorama, proposing to survey contemporary climate novels, memoirs, graphic novels, and community biographies from around the world (with a slight, stated preference for literary production in the Global South).Affirming literature's cultural importance as both a reflection and a construction of how humans perceive and interact with the natural world, Nayar draws out key potentialities of the literary imagination to shape "the public response to and tackling of climate crisis" (18): a familiar critical refrain, though one that Nayar lends new substance through his book's distinctly planetary scope.By far the most impressive features of Vulnerable Earth are the breadth and diversity of its archive, which features over one hundred primary texts from authors representing the literatures of six continents.Nayar's interpretive approach to his source materials privileges topical continuities over regional specificities, enabling Nayar and his readers to "thin[k] through echoes, resonances and anxieties that align and animate markedly different literatures" (16).In each of the book's four chapters, Nayar indexes the variety of literary works contributing to a given thematic cluster-hydropoetics, extinction, multispecies relations, and ecojustice, respectively.Sometimes we pause for close examination of a specific narrative, but more