article_snippet.sent: no putting his new novel down," wrote William T. Vollmann in The New York Times Book Review.
article_snippet.sent: Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Sixth Extinction:
article_snippet.sent: Kolbert, a New Yorker staff writer, tackles the idea that we're at the beginning of another mass die-off.
article_snippet.sent: As the planet warms up, and carbon dioxide acidifies the oceans, all bets are off -- except the ones hinging on mass extinctions," wrote Nicholas Lazard in The Guardian.
article_snippet.sent: Despite that prospect, Nicholas Lazard in The Guardian added, "Kolbert's book is not, thankfully, as depressing as you might think.
highlights_snippet.sent: Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Sixth Extinction" wins general nonfiction prize .