Category: Book Review

Ben Fox over at Shepherd.com (a great place to discover your next read) asked me what my favorite climate fiction books were. It was tough to whittle them down to […]

Book Review: Dark Side of the Ocean

Review: Stamford ’76 by JoeAnn Hart  

OINK Exisle Publishing, November 2019 By Renée Hollis     There is a saying in the book reviewer world, that if you review a book with a pig on the […]

  The Narrow Edge By Deborah Cramer Yale University Press, 2015.  The “narrow edge” in the title of this engaging book by Deborah Cramer evokes the image of comedian Harold […]

Zoologies, On Animals and the Human Spirit (Milkweed Editions)By Alison Hawthorne DemingEvery day, as I walk from house to barn, or go up the driveway to get the mail, I […]

Once a year, courtesy of Houghton Mifflin, we get to be wowed, disgusted, depressed, amazed, revolted, terrified, and sometimes even amused with the publication of The Best American Science and Nature […]

How we live with nature’s filthy, feral, invasive, and unwanted species Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II, editors University of Minnesota Press, 2013 In this collected cross-section of stories […]

Edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney (Trinity University Press, field edition 2013)   “What draws our attention?” Barry Lopez asks in his introduction of Home Ground, a surprisingly entertaining guide […]