A powerful retelling of the last 500 years of history – and where we go next.
Tag: Environment
Review: Take Care by Eunice Andrada
Poetry that investigates ‘taking’ in all its forms.
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.
Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell
A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.
Review: Toxic by Richard Flanagan
Toxic is a polemic against Tasmania’s farmed salmon industry.
Review: The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
The Rain Heron is a fable about environmental exploitation.
Review: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
A virtuosic collection of essays about the meanings we invest in nature and animals.
Review: White Beech by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer writes that restoring the land is her proudest achievement.
The best books I’ve read 2020
The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.
Review: Living With The Anthropocene (edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell)
The writers in this collection grapple with what it means to be “planetary” beings: how our individual actions can seem so small, but have global consequences.
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