Writers Confront Climate Crisis

Cade Bambara has said the role of the artist is “to make revolution irresistible.” So when Jenny Offill, author of the novels (Knopf, 2014) and (Knopf, 2020), heard about the work of Writers Rebel—the writers’ arm of Extinction Rebellion, an international activist group that works against climate change—she felt compelled to get involved. “I’d been working on and was thinking and reading a lot about climate change, trying to figure out how, when I was done, I was going to do something