Melissa Dennihy 
When was the last time you sat for a length of time in a quiet space outdoors, looking at, listening to, smelling, and communing with the vast biodiversity of the …
Read the review: Book Review: Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
While driving down the East Coast on a recent road trip, I found myself mesmerized by the many hawks I saw overhead as I traversed the highways. Appearing to glide …
Read the review: Book Review: The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
What do we know about life in the ocean, and what can the varied forms of life there teach us about our own lives and selves? These are the questions …
Read the review: Book Review: How Far the Light Reaches: A Life In Ten Sea Creatures
Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem is a powerful collection of ecopoetry that forefronts the interconnectedness of humans, animals, land, and water. Throughout, …
Read the review: Book Review: Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Beloved Beasts is a richly informative history of the international conservation movement and the central figures who have played crucial roles in developing conservationism and moving conservation efforts forward. The …
Katherine Applegate’s Willodeen, out today from Feiwel and Friends, aptly begins with an epigraph quoting Greta Thunberg: “I have learned you are never too small to make a difference.” This …
Read the review: Book Review: Willodeen by Katherine Applegate
Set on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in the span of the twelve days before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina makes landfall, Salvage the Bones is the story of 14-year-old …
Read the review: Book Review: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Studies of animal intelligence have demonstrated the impressive cognitive abilities of certain animals: rhesus macaques, crows, bottlenose dolphins, border collies. Recently, there is another animal gaining increasing recognition for its …
Read the review: Book Review: The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
In The Meaning of Birds, Simon Barnes traces the history of birds—as well as humans’ relationships and interactions with them—over several millennia and across multiple continents. Barnes is a UK-based …
Read the review: Book Review: The Meaning of Birds by Simon Barnes