“ELEGIAC, ANGRY AND IRONIC … [A] CLARION GLOBAL CHORUS” In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta , has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman’s , and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced. Here, he draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. Galvanized by his conversations with writers and activists around the world, Freeman engaged with some of today’s most eloquent storytellers, many of whom hail from the places under the most acute stress–from the capital of Burundi to Bangkok, Thailand. The response has been extraordinary. Margaret Atwood conjures up a dystopian future in a remarkable poem. Edwidge Danticat to Haiti; Tahmima Anam to Bangladesh; while Eka Kurniawan brings us to Indonesia, Chinelo Okparanta to Nigeria, and An