Author Elizabeth Kolbert discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning book. The latest selection for the citywide reading program One Book, One Chicago is Elizabeth Kolbert’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The ...

Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy. So it is with this story, which starts with the emergence of a new species maybe two hundred thousand years ago. The species does not yet have a name -- ...

Feeling anxious about the future? Unnerved and fearful? Something big and bad and existential seems like it’s coming down the pike and you can’t quite put your finger on it? Does the Chicago Public ...

Climate change has threatened the existence of several living species, including humankind itself. One author predicts that on the current course, climate change will lead to a mass extinction on ...

Author Elizabeth Kolbert calls climate change the crucial issue of our time. “Unfortunately, it’s a story that only gets more truer as time goes on, and more urgent and bigger,” she said. Kolbert’s ...

For those who would prefer to maintain that civil distance from an ever-grimmer reality, Bil Zelman’s book, And Here We Are: Stories From the Sixth Extinction, published by Daylight Books this month, ...