Book reviews
We present a selection of our reviews covering significant, groundbreaking books and films that are often ignored by the mainstream media. The reviews include those that have been published in the magazine and additional reviews that for reasons of space we were unable to publish in the magazine.
Reviews from the past year are shown below. Older reviews are listed separately. Reviews can also be located through our article archive search facility.
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A Bigger Picture: My Flight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Amplifying the Voices of African Activists
Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation by Sudeep Sen
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Poetry in the Time of Covid
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Design for Life
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Planning for the Planet
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > We Need to Talk
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > A Force of Grace
The Boys Who Said NO!: Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War by Judith Ehrlich
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Hell No, We Won't Go
The Entangled Activist: Learning to Recognise the Master's Tools by Anthea Lawson
Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Out of Our Systems
Reviews from the past year
A Still Life: A Memoir by Joise George
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Small, Wonderful World
Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori
Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Plant Portraits
Beak, Tooth and Claw: Living with Predators in Britain by Mary Colwell
Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Hunter and Hunted
Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? by Jessica Fanzo
Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Eating Together
Dawn of an Era of Well-being by Ervin László and Frederick Tsao
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Separation is an Illusion
Earthed by Rebecca Schiller
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Soil and Soul
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Missing Meals
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Growing Pains
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Talking Trees
Floodlines by Alice Bell
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Up Close and Personal
Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the 21st Century by Anita Roy and Pippa Marland (eds)
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > The Arts > Climate Talks
Go Big: How to Fix Our World by Ed Miliband
Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Reimagining What's Possible
How Compassion Can Transform Our Politics, Economy and Society by Matt Hawkins and Jennifer Nadel
Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > The Power of Caring
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Billionaire's Take
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Eye of the Storm
How to Disagree: Negotiating Difference in a Divided World by Adam Ferner and Darren Chetty
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > How Can We Agree?
How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Rational Thinking
I Am Greta: B-Reel Films by Nathan Grossman
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > From the Beginning
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Lust for Land
Landed Podcast by Farmerara Radio
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Deep Digging on the Family Farm
Learning to Lead Together: An Ecological and Community Approach by Jane Riddiford
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Rebuilding Connection
Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year Through Japan's 72 Seasons by Lev Parikian
Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > A Year in Microseasons
Make It Happen: How to Be an Activist by Amika George
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Guide to Success
Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell
Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Beginning, Middle - and End?
Parents for a Future by Rupert Read
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Big Ask
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Growing Pains
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis by Sally Weintrobe
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Colluding with Exceptionalism
Reading recommendations for the New Year by
Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Good Books
Seven Ways to Change the World: How to Fix the Most Pressing Problems We Face by Gordon Brown
Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Reimagining What's Possible
Smoke Hole Sessions Podcast by Martin Shaw
Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Stories by the Fire
Subtle Agroecologies: Farming with the Hidden Half of Nature by Julia Wright and Nicholas Parrott (eds)
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > The Invisible Dimension of Farming
The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis by Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros
Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Mapping the Future
The Bird-friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats by Melanie Challenger
Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Bird's-Eye View
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Care Under Capitalism
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > The Origins of Equality
The Eternal Season: Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future by Stephen Rutt
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > The Arts > Climate Talks
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Telling Time
The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Home Alone
The Next Great Migration: The Story of Movement on a Changing Planet by Sonia Shah
Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Migration: A Climate Solution
The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M Krauss
Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > The Power of Science
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Roots of Change
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > The Crossroads of Wonder and Despair
Three Podcasts with different world views by
Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Listen Up!
We Have a Dream by Mya-Rose Craig
Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > An Anthem for Climate Justice
Who Cares Wins by Lily Cole
Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Who Cares Who Wins?
Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths
Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Regulars > Letters to the Editors > Letters to the Editor
Wir konnten auch anders: Eine kurze Geschichte der Nachhaltigkeit by Jane Riddiford
Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Sustainability - Medieval Style
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