Olga Tokarczuk

a satellite image of smoke and fires in the Brazilian rainforest

The Destruction of the World in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk’s newly translated novel has been marketed as a murder mystery, albeit a strange one. It is that, partly, but underneath the whodunit is another novel: one about how our obsession with usefulness leads to greed, and the devastating impact of both on the environment.