IFLA! Blog

We publish news, reviews, interviews and opinion throughout the year. Find some of our favourite essays from our print issues here, along with extra pieces from IFLA! writers and staff.

Baya Simons tries to make sense of Jessie Greengrass’s The High House, finding an eerie novel that fails to land.

A review and interview of Laurie Laybourn-Langton and Mathew Lawrence's Planet on Fire: a manifesto for the age of environmental breakdown.

Steph Glover reviews Olga Ravn’s ‘unnerving, dark’ and ‘long overdue’ work about humans struggling for reason on a space ship far from home.

Jackson Howarth reviews Good Kid Twisted Fantasy, finding a searing condemnation of the economic and class dynamics of eco-astro-fatalism.

Francis Blagburn revisits blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow to explore how pop culture grasped the climate crisis in the early noughties.

Andrew Key takes a look at changing depictions of direct environmental action on film and our predilection for the heroic individual.