A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.
Tag: Environment
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.
Review: Fire Country by Victor Steffensen
Victor Steffensen offers a language to articulate here we want to go and how to get there.
Review: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Entangled Life is a mind-expanding trip into the world of fungi, and a model for nature and science writing.
Review: Feasting Wild by Gina Rae La Cerva
A moving and compelling investigation into wild food and the practices of hunting and gathering, and by extension, humanity’s whole relationship to nature.
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