It might come as a surprise to many who know John Green primarily as an author of contemporary young adult novels (“The Fault in our Stars”) that his latest release is a work of nonfiction—the subject ostensibly being “the human-centered planet.”
This becomes doubly surprising after the nearly four-year gap between his last novel, “Turtles All the Way Down,” and “The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet” (Dutton, New York, 2021, 293 pages), released on May 18.
“For the past decade, writing for me hasn’t only—or even primarily—been about writing. It’s also about touring and publicity and movie rights, all of which I’m ridiculously lucky to stress about, but…
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