Review: Joy Williams on “The Uninhabitable Earth”

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming is a swift, abrasive, seemingly merciless book about the horrors that await us in our very near future—payback for our vigorous, unrelenting, practically ecstatic, pillaging of the planet. Its author, David Wallace-Wells, speaks American, as Don DeLillo would say, or the well educated, articulate, ironic, vagu…