Helen Kapstein’s second book, Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics, was published in November 2025 with the West Virginia University Press’s Energy & Society series. Petroforms offers a theory of petrocriticism, the critical study of fossil fuels from a humanities perspective. It is a finalist in the humanities/ literature category for the PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers.
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