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Tag: Environment

Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Feye Lethem)

A short, elemental novel pulsing with the rhythms of time.

Contemporary, Environment, Fiction, Historical, nature, Novel, Spain

Best books I’ve read 2022

My favourite reads of the year.

Australian, Contemporary, Environment, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, queer

Review: Desire by Jessie Cole

A delicate study of needs and desires.

Australian, Climate change, Environment, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh

A powerful retelling of the last 500 years of history – and where we go next.

Climate change, Colonialism, Environment, History, India, Indonesia, Nonfiction

Review: Take Care by Eunice Andrada

Poetry that investigates ‘taking’ in all its forms.

Colonialism, Environment, Patriarchy, Philippines, Poetry, Sexual assault

Review: Under A White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

A gripping, frightening and weirdly hopeful look at the lengths we’ll have to go to to fix global problems.

Climate change, Environment, Extinction, nature, Nonfiction

Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell

A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.

Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Toxic by Richard Flanagan

Toxic is a polemic against Tasmania’s farmed salmon industry.

Environment, Nonfiction, Tasmania

Review: The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott

The Rain Heron is a fable about environmental exploitation.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Environment, Fantasy, Fiction, Spec-fic, Tasmania

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

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