Read The Overstory

The one we are causing, species by species; Kolbert's Pulitzer.

Al Gore's slideshow on climate change; the cherry picker up the CO2 graph.

The last wild beekeeper in North Macedonia and the neighbours who ruin it; two Oscar nominations.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

Celie's letters to God and to her sister in 1930s Georgia; Alice Walker's Pulitzer.

A father and son push a shopping cart through a burned America; the ending is why people read it.

Swede Levov, the perfect Newark athlete, and the daughter who bombs a post office; Roth's Pulitzer.

A dying Iowa preacher writes to his seven-year-old son; the quietest Pulitzer.