Badlands

Exploring the environmental "badlands" across Europe, Asia, and the U.S., the author combines vivid prose with a sense of wanderlust. His journeys take him from Albania's impoverished landscapes to Silicon Valley's scorched suburbs, revealing stark contrasts like a nuclear plant's eerie silence and the commercial exploitation in Whitechapel. With unique guides, including a survivor of a bizarre regime and a poet yearning for alien abduction, the essays reflect on the absurdities of our world while critiquing environmental and social injustices.