Amitav Ghosh’s superb essay collection maps the turbulent waters in which human survival, climate breakdown and colonial history converge, and the migrant’s smartphone becomes the talisman of a “global citizenry of desire.”

“Climate change and migration are in fact two cognate aspects of the same thing,” he writes: the outcome of a frenzy of production and consumption in an age of disaster capitalism, imperial violence, and the delusion of “neutral” progress.

Wild Fictions is a timely atlas of entangled destinies, highlighting the increasingly endangered symbiosis of the human, the more-than-human, and the planet we call home.