NEWS AND EVENT INFORMATION
2026
VanderMeer’s remaining events for the year include:
8/13-16: Necronomicon Guest of Honor (Providence, RI)
9/17: Powell’s Burnside in-conversation with Marlon James (Portland, Oregon)
10/1: Driftwood Public Library (Lincoln City, Oregon)
10/10: Hillsboro Public Library event (Oregon, details TBA)
Variety Announces New VanderMeer Series & Film News
Interviewed by the Oregonian about urban walks.
An appreciation of the film The Assessment for Sight and Sound Magazine’s 21st century SF issue.
A tribute to St. Marks Wildlife Refuge in Travel & Leisure Magazine
The author tackles Bigfoot and Bears for Orion Magazine.
The co-written introduction for Aira’s Five reprinted by the Paris Review.
Absolution
Coming in 2028: Area X: The Southern Reach Files
Absolution was an instant New York Times and LA Times bestseller, reaching #7 on the NYT list. Absolution also spent time on the Indie Bookseller’s list. In addition to rave reviews, the novel is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize
Absolution was one of the year’s best novels, according to TIME, the Washington Post, NPR, Goodreads, Literary Hub, and Kirkus, among others.
A selection of press:
Poets & Writers Profile by Kate Tuttle
Jeff’s NYT Op Ed on Hurricane Fatigue.
Publishers Weekly profile of VanderMeer.
Publishers Weekly gives a starred review to Absolution, out October 22.
Kirkus Review’s cover interview with VanderMeer.
People Magazine announces the new VanderMeer Novel, Absolution
Major Articles
Esquire on Jeff VanderMeer’s “Accidental Activism”
VanderMeer’s Personal Essay on Hummingbirds at Orion Magazine
Esquire posted the essay “Climate Fiction Won’t Save Us”
Orion Magazine posted “Landscape, Change, and the Long Road Ahead,” VanderMeer’s essay on Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
TIME magazine ran VanderMeer’s “Florida’s Environmental Woes,” and expose of poor and contrary leadership in the Sunshine State
“A Man of No Qualities,” VanderMeer’s analysis of Ron DeSantis, ran over at Esquire