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Book Review: Becoming Ecological by Derek Gladwin and Kedrick James

July 15, 2026 by Midge Raymond

In our writing program Writing for Animals, we talk a lot about language and how it reflects the ways we treat animals (for better and for worse) — and especially how …

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Categories Book Reviews, Ecology, New books, Nonfiction, University of Toronto Press

Book Review: Where the Earth Meets the Sky by Louise K. Blight

July 12, 2026 by Midge Raymond

When I first started reading Where the Earth Meets the Sky: Penguins, People and Place in Antarctica by Louise K. Blight, which was published in April of this year, all I could …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Oceans, Simon & Schuster

Book Review: Bogland – The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life

July 12, 2026July 6, 2026 by Ben Mc Cabe

As a nursling of the rural Irish landscape, I was taken with the title of Merritt R. Turetsky’s book Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life as …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Plants, Sustainability, W. W. Norton & Company

Book Review: The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

June 24, 2026June 23, 2026 by Melissa Dennihy

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 …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal History, Animals, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Hunting, Nonfiction, Topics

Translating Pavlov

May 15, 2026 by John Yunker

Dr. Ivan Pavlov is one of the most popular scientists of all time, so much so that his name has become an adjective. And yet little is known about the …

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Categories Animal History, Animals, Book Reviews, Dogs, Nonfiction

Out of Sight: Bringing animal atrocities into the light

April 18, 2026 by John Yunker

Gail Eisnitz has devoted her life to defending animals. In Out of Sight: An Undercover Investigator’s Fight for Animal Rights and Her Own Survival she takes us along with her …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: Sangamithra Iyer’s Governing Bodies

April 11, 2026 by Midge Raymond

Sangamithra Iyer’s lovely, inspiring memoir, Governing Bodies: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed, is told in three parts: in letters to her grandfather, to her late father, and to her readers. …

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Categories Activism, Animal Rights, Animals, Book Reviews, Ecology, Milkweed Press, Nonfiction, Veganism

Synthetic Frontiers: The trash island that wasn’t

March 29, 2026 by John Yunker

In the introduction to Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands author Kim De Wolff writes: Sail through the North Pacific Ocean and surely you cannot miss …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecomedia, Nonfiction, Oceans, Oil, PNW, Pollution, The MIT Press, What we're reading

Extinction on Display: Ghosts Behind Glass

March 22, 2026 by John Yunker

The extinction genre continues to expand and evolve as writers provide new and unique perspectives on the loss of animal species and how we come to terms with such losses. …

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Categories Animal History, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Extinction, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Zoos

Your Guide to Climate Action

March 12, 2026March 12, 2026 by JoeAnn Hart

How to move beyond your footprint and make a big impact By Ryan Hagen Climate Action Press, October 2025 I have to admit, I opened Your Guide to Climate Action …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction

New and forthcoming environmental books (March 2026) 

March 6, 2026 by John Yunker

We have quite a few new books to share with you — a mix of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Enjoy! Wild, Unfelt World By Hillary Gonzalez When was the last …

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Categories Fiction, New & Forthcoming Books, Nonfiction, Poetry, What we're reading
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