Book Review: The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard (1978), a beautiful true account of a wildlife research trek into the Himalayas, reads like a novel. It’s rich with sensory detail — capturing the sights, tastes, …
Book Review: Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Firstly, in March, you can take a free online course on Practical Ethics taught by Peter Singer author, ethicist and professor of bioethics at Princeton University — how fantastic! — …
Call for Writers: Voices for Biodiversity
Anthropologist Tara Waters Lumpkin is founder and executive director of a nonprofit project and e-zine called Voices for Biodiversity. Our goal is to provide a multimedia platform where citizen eco-reporters can …
Book Review — Collared: Politics and Personalities in Oregon’s Wolf Country
Wolves–will they ever cease to create controversy and incite emotion? After all, they are just another four-legged, fur-covered predator–powerful, but certainly not the “beast of waste and desolation,” that Teddy …
Book Review: Countdown by Alan Weisman
Alan Weisman’s Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? follows his fascinating book The World Without Us, this time asking the question: What will become of the …
Book Review: MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
How do you feel about lab grown meat? Glowing, green bunnies? Is our future weird, repulsive, curious, frightening and delightful? Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy — Oryx and Crake (2003), The …
Book Review: The Botanical Garden by Ellen Welcker
You could read Melville’s Moby Dick. You could travel the world. You could read about the plight of immigrants and refugees in The New York Times and discuss them over …
Book Review: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
In a quiet part of town where the houses stand close and evening stretches long the shade of the garden hose and the baby falls asleep clutching her teddy bear’s …
Book Review: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman is a meticulously researched and fascinating look at what would happen to our planet if humans were suddenly to disappear. It is at …
Bellevue Literary Review seeks environmentally themed submissions
Published by the Department of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, Bellevue Literary Review is best known for being a journal that focuses on illness, health, and healing, with wonderfully broad …
Book Review: Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food
Are you going to do the Walk for Farm Animals this month because you read this book? Read this book and you might find yourself there next year. Of all …
