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Tag: Animals

Review: Human/Nature by Jane Rawson

What do we mean when we say ‘nature’?

Animals, Conservation, Ethics, Extinction, nature, Nonfiction

Review: Abandon Every Hope by Hayley Singer

Why don’t we speak or think of what happens in abattoirs and slaughterhouses?

Animals, Australian, Essays, Ethics, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction

Review: An Immense World by Ed Yong

A majestic and intimate travelogue of animals’ sensory worlds.

Animals, nature, Nonfiction, science

Review: Wild Souls by Emma Marris

An incisive investigation into our relationship with wild animals.

Animals, Conservation, Nonfiction, science

Review: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

It’s about whales.

America, Animals, Classics, Fiction, Novel, US

Review: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

A virtuosic collection of essays about the meanings we invest in nature and animals.

Animals, British, Climate change, Environment, Essays, nature, nature writing, Nonfiction

Review: The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay

The Animals In That Country is premised on the idea that if we could suddenly understand what are animals are saying, it would drive us insane.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Spec-fic, Speculative

Review: Mammoth by Chris Flynn

A mammoth and a tyrannosaurus skeleton find themselves in storage, setting the stage for a fascinating and ultimately moving romp through history.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Dinosaurs, Environment, Extinction, Fiction, Novel
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