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Olivia Radbill

Olivia Radbill is an LA-based public librarian and archivist. She is a practicing vegan and animal rights advocate.

Book Review: Dark Soil

May 15, 2024 by Olivia Radbill
Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies book cover

The title card at the end of Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, a classic of the New Queer Cinema film movement, reads “Sometimes you have to create your own history.” …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Essays, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Book Review: Odder

September 8, 2022 by Olivia Radbill
Illustrated book cover of an otter sticking her head out of the ocean against a blue sky backdrop

Katherine Applegate, author of the Newbery Medal-winning The One and Only Ivan and the widely hailed The One and Only Bob, has returned with the story of Odder. Like Applegate’s …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Fiction, Rewilding

Book Review: The Treeline

March 24, 2022 by Olivia Radbill

As environmental activists have made clear for decades, the preservation of Earth’s forests is essential to the existence of life. And, yet, continued exploitation of this resource and the simultaneous …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Nonfiction, Trees

Book Review: The Longest Story

October 4, 2021 by Olivia Radbill

Upon reading the synopsis, Richard Girling’s The Longest Story appears to take on an ambitious task: cover the relationship between humans and non-human animals throughout all of history in under …

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Categories Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, History, Nonfiction

Book Review: Saving Animals

December 2, 2021May 4, 2021 by Olivia Radbill

Defining “animal rights activism” can be a difficult task. Plenty of new vegans may find themselves asking questions like “How do I spread my beliefs?” and “What are the next …

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Categories Animal Rights, Ashland Creek Press, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Veganism

Book Review: 72 Reasons To Be Vegan

October 4, 2021March 18, 2021 by Olivia Radbill

Intended for audiences considering adopting a vegan diet, 72 Reasons To Be Vegan provides succinct and (mostly) evidence-based advantages of veganism. 72 Reasons To Be Vegan is organized in list …

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Categories Animal Rights, Conservation, Sustainability, Veganism

Book Review: The Reign of Wolf 21

January 29, 2021 by Olivia Radbill
reign of wolf 21 cover

The Druid Wolf Pack of Yellowstone National Park has garnered international notoriety over the last 20 years. Established in the mid-1990s, the Druid Wolf Pack was at one point the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Greystone Books, Nonfiction, Wolves

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