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Book Reviews

Book Review: Animal History: History as If Animals Mattered

October 28, 2025 by John Yunker

In the introduction to Animal History: History as If Animals Mattered, Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey write, “An animal does not just have a biology, but also a biography.” Sadly, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal behavior, Animal History, Animal POV, Animal Rights, Animals, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Veganism, Vivisection

EcoLit Books featured on Viva la Book Review

October 15, 2025 by John Yunker

We are pleased to have an essay featured on Viva la Book Review, an organization founded to “foster thoughtful, well-crafted book criticism that supports a crucial open dialogue among reviewers, …

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Categories Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Ecomedia, Essays, For Writers

Book Review: North of the Sunlit River by Jessica Bryant Klagmann

October 12, 2025 by Midge Raymond

In her novel North of the Sunlit River, Jessica Bryant Klagmann’s characters face grief and loss amid beautiful depictions of the natural world, from Alaska to New Mexico. Eila Jacobsen is …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction

Book Review: The Island of Last Things by Emma Sloley

October 6, 2025 by Frances Pauli

Emma Sloley’s, The Island Of Last Things, pulls no punches. It is a warning without hesitation, a tragic imagining of an end that is far too plausible, too close to …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction

Book Review: Defending Animals by Kendra Coulter

October 20, 2025October 2, 2025 by Midge Raymond

During the writing of Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection, Kendra Coulter’s dog, Sunny, spent many hours wrapped around her feet. Sunny, who had been abused …

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Categories Activism, Animal Rights, Animals, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pets, Veganism

Black Gold: Clearing the smoke on American coal

September 29, 2025 by John Yunker

If I were to mention the words “black gold” you might picture oil (Thank you, Beverly Hillbillies). But the original black gold was coal and it is the title of …

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Categories Activism, Book Reviews, Climate Change, History, Mining, Nonfiction, Oil, Pollution, What we're reading

Writing Opportunity: Nature Chronicles Prize

September 22, 2025 by John Yunker

Here’s a great opportunity to see your work published in anthology and possibly win up to £10,000: We are a biennial, international, English-language literary award proud to have established itself …

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Categories Book Reviews, Contest, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Book Review Flashback: Animal Resistance

September 17, 2025 by John Yunker
Animal Resistance

I had mentioned the passing of author Sarat Colling last month. Today I’d like to revisit her book Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era. We reviewed the book four …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal behavior, Animal History, Animal Rights, Animals, Book Reviews, Flashback, History, Horses

The Omnivore’s Deception: Conscience makes cowards of us all

September 5, 2025September 5, 2025 by John Yunker

If the title of this book reminds you of the bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, that is intentional. For as author John Sanbonmatsu writes, Michael Pollan did a …

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Categories Animal History, Animal Rights, Animals, Book Reviews, History, New York University Press, Nonfiction, Veganism

Habitat, by Case Q. Kerns

September 2, 2025September 2, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

Black Lawrence Press, August 2025 In Habitat, a delectably creepy novel-in-stories, set slightly in the future, Case Q. Kerns imagines how late-stage capitalism plays itself out in the worst possible …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Anthropocene, Black Lawrence Press, Book Reviews, Ecology, Fiction, Pets, Short Stories

Book Review Flashback: How Animals Grieve by Barbara J. King

August 28, 2025 by John Yunker

It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly 12 years since I reviewed How Animals Grieve by Barbara King. It’s a powerful book and I still recommend it today. Animals …

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Categories Animal behavior, Animal Rights, Animals, Flashback
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