The Parliament of Mice, A Fable
By Robert Epstein Regal House Press, July 2026 When was the last time you read a fable, or, more likely, had one read one to you? As a child? In …
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Book Review: Fires in the Night by Matthew Wolfe
Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage is a compelling work of narrative nonfiction, meticulously researched and written with the tension of a thriller. Amid the stories of ELF members who stealthily committed arson in the name of animals and the planet are the stories of the law enforcement officers whom the Elves outwitted and outran at every step—until they didn’t. And underneath the drama is a stark message: the planet is imperiled, and those most passionate about saving it have been labeled terrorists.
Book Review: Becoming Ecological by Derek Gladwin and Kedrick James
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 …
Book Review: The Thinning by Inga Simpson
Akashic Books, June 2026 When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights in 2025, there was a lot of chatter on social media telling women to delete their menstrual …
Book Review: Where the Earth Meets the Sky by Louise K. Blight
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 …
Book Review: Bogland – The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life
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 …
Review: Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7
The population of Earth is decreasing, and Rosemary and her daughter escape the increasingly inhospitable conditions on land (radiation, disease) to live in an underwater pod. At least that’s what …
Book Review: The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal Poetry
The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal Poetry is poetry collection a long time in the making: Ten years according to editors Ashley Capps and Allison Titus. The wait was worth it. …
Book Review: Sangamithra Iyer’s Governing Bodies
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. …
Synthetic Frontiers: The trash island that wasn’t
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 …
Book review: The Shark House by Sara Ackerman
Sara Ackerman’s novel The Shark House is a richly layered, atmospheric love letter to sharks — as well as the oceans and other animals — that unravels mysteries both immediate and deeply …