Love is War: Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag
Boy meets girl. Girl goes veg. Boy goes off the deep end. And so begins this heartfelt, occasionally hilarious and generally brilliant graphic novel about one man’s struggle to resist …
Animal Rights
A call for animal-themed stories and essays
The international literary journal Asymptote has put out a call for the submissions of “animal-themed fictional and non-fictional writings for our special feature in the issue of April 2023.” You …
Book Review: Sixty Harvests Left: Regenerating our planet and ourselves
I’ve long believed that the Dust Bowl years were the result of rampant over-farming and generally awful land management. And while this is true, what I didn’t realize until I …
The best environmental books we’ve read in 2022
Philosopher Albert Camus summed it up best when he wrote: “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” The books we’ve highlighted below include a number …
2022 Year in Review: Most popular books and posts
When I look at visitor stats for the past year, EcoLit Books has seen a steady increase in the number of daily visitors. We now average just over 200 unique …
Book Review: COYOTE AMERICA by Dan Flores
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores is excellent reading, especially for those of us who’ve shared our landscapes with these magnificent creatures. Flores’s knowledge of the …
The Creative Lives of Animals: Understanding the artists around us
Creativity is something that is easier to identify than to explain. And one person’s definition of creativity may vary from your definition. For proof, you need only enter the modern …
Life Between the Tides, by Adam Nicolson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2022 (Published in the UK as The Sea is Not Made of Water) Life Between the Tides is my kind of book. British author, Adam …
The best environmental books we’ve read in 2021
In 2016, we began compiling lists of the best books we read that year (new or old, it didn’t matter). And now here we are in 2021, and we’ve got …
Listen, We All Bleed: The artists who are helping us hear what animals have to say
So much of animal activism is focused around what one sees — witnessing the beauty as well as the suffering of the animals we share this planet with. But what …
Sue Coe and the last great social movement
In the book Animal Resistance there are a number of illustrations by the artist Sue Coe. And it turns out that Sue was interviewed last year by The New York …