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Animal Rights

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

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

Animal Writes book launch & writing prompts

June 20, 2025 by John Yunker

Thanks to everyone who joined our book launch yesterday. For those who couldn’t be there, here is the recording — in which we share a few short readings and three …

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Categories Animal Rights, Animals, Education, Events, For Writers, Pets, Q&A, What we're reading

Book Review: Your Neighbor Kills Puppies

March 26, 2025 by John Yunker

In Your Neighbor Kills Puppies: Inside the Animal Liberation Movement author Tom Harris has written a comprehensive history of the battles won and lost in the UK, US and around …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Veganism, What we're reading

New and forthcoming environmental books (March 2025)

March 23, 2025 by John Yunker

I’m happy to share a new selection of environmentally themed books — including poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Please check them out… Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology Edited by Ian …

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Categories Animal Rights, Animals, Anthropocene, Architecture, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Fiction, Nonfiction, Oceans, Poetry, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company

Writing Opportunity: The Sun (Wild Animals)

February 21, 2025 by John Yunker

The Readers Write section in The Sun is one of the most-read sections of this popular magazine. I’m happy to pass along an opportunity that I suspect will resonate with …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Animals, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

New and forthcoming environmental books (February 2025)

June 13, 2025February 20, 2025 by John Yunker

So many amazing books. So little time to review them all… Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture By Albert Narath How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential …

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Categories Activism, Animal Rights, Architecture, Book Reviews, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Oceans, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company

Animals in World History: The long-overlooked protagonists of our planet

January 26, 2025 by John Yunker

If history is written by the victors, then this book is a much-needed step forward in our awareness and understanding of the non-human animals who have suffered at the hands …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, History, Nonfiction, Pets, Routledge, What we're reading, Zoos

Book Review: The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture

November 25, 2024 by John Yunker

When the British colonized India throughout the 18th century they imported their narrative about the relationships between human and non-human animals. A narrative of violence and cruelty, in which wild …

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Categories Animal Rights, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, History, Hunting, Nonfiction, Routledge, Sustainability, Topics, What we're reading

The Lives of Animals turns 25

November 9, 2024 by John Yunker

In 1997, J.M. Coetzee delivered two lectures at Princeton University in the form of short stories. These stories ended up in the novella The Lives of Animals, which now is …

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Categories Animal Rights, Conservation, For Writers, Princeton University Press, Veganism

New and forthcoming environmental books (November 2024)

November 6, 2024 by John Yunker

I’m happy to share the latest assortment of environmental and animal books that have come our way… please check them out! Birds Beasts and Bedlam By Derek Gow Author of Bringing …

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Categories Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Rewilding, Trees, What we're reading
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