Eating With My Mouth open is an investigation of food, body and memory, and all the things they can mean.
Tag: Nonfiction
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.
Review: Sea People by Christina Thompson
A riveting and passionate tale of intellectual inquiry into the origins of Polynesia.
Review: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend
The Fifth Sun is a fascinating, scholarly and moving portrayal of a people surviving colonisation.
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: 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.
Review: Truganini by Cassandra Pybus
In Truganini, historian Cassandra Pybus attempts to “release” a woman from colonial myth-making. It is a shattering book.
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