Editor's Note.

ISLE 30.4 is a collection of essays and articles that cover a wide range of topics related to literature and the environment. The articles explore themes such as the material culture of cardboard boxes, the role of gardens in the Harlem Renaissance, the representation of ordinary food in apocalyptic fiction, the impact of extinction stories on attitudes towards endangered species, the connection between feral hog hunting and immigration anxieties, the exploitation of elephants in postcolonial India, the emergence of the environmental grotesque in contemporary literature, the decolonization of Alaskan literature, settler colonial tropes in Australian climate fiction, waste and communal purpose in Thomas Hardy's novel, and the posthumanist poetics of J.H. Prynne. The issue also includes a section of poems and book reviews. [Extracted from the article]