Elizabeth Rush Archives : EcoLit Books

The best environmental books we’ve read in 2018

December 20, 2020December 11, 2018 by John Yunker

This is our third year of recapping the best books we’ve read over the past year. Here are the 2017 and 2016 lists. We’re so glad that the number of both readers and reviewers of EcoLit Books have grown enough to now have an annual tradition of celebrating our favorite books of the year. And …

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush

September 29, 2019September 13, 2018 by Jacki Skole

In 2012, on assignment in Bangladesh researching a story on the world’s longest border fence, journalist Elizabeth Rush “inadvertently” became interested in sea level rise. By 2015, she’d become obsessed. Now, after immersing herself in the subject, Rush is out with Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a tour-de-force of literary reportage. Rising takes …