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Consider the Pangolin, and Other Animals

The LRB Podcast

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The Importance of Hope

Catherine Rundell's new book is an attempt to answer the question of does it matter? A world in which we were alone would be a catastrophe beyond imagining, she says. The finality of it is something I think we are as humans very bad at reckoning with. "The time to hold the line is now and the time to find hope is now"

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