Los Angeles Book Review: On Fuel

Karen Pinkus’s inventive and engaging Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary constitutes a notable addition to a field that has rapidly come to be known as the “energy humanities.”

Fuel (Karen Pinkus)Karen Pinkus’s inventive and engaging Fuel: A Speculative Dictionaryconstitutes a notable addition to a field that has rapidly come to be known as the “energy humanities.” Fuel draws its own vibrant, critical energies from a key distinction Pinkus makes at the outset: this isn’t a book about energy, but (as the title suggests) fuel. It has become common practice (in English, at least) to use these terms more or less interchangeably. The distinction is important, however, and telling.

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Published in: Los Angeles Review of Books
By: Imre Szeman