The future of the planet is in question this week, or at least, humanity's place on it, as Gabrielle Walker discusses possible solutions to climate change and why we don't need to panic - yet - but we do need to act, together. The TLS's fiction editor, Toby Lichtig, talks us through the hype and hoopla around Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale - and what the book itself is like. And are you Team Scott or Team Zelda? Joanna Scutts looks at 'the messy intertextuality of a marriage', and the question of influence within the Fitzgerald ménage.
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Save Me The Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
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