If the title of this book reminds you of the bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, that is intentional. For as author John Sanbonmatsu writes, Michael Pollan did a …
Black Lawrence Press, August 2025 In Habitat, a delectably creepy novel-in-stories, set slightly in the future, Case Q. Kerns imagines how late-stage capitalism plays itself out in the worst possible …
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly 12 years since I reviewed How Animals Grieve by Barbara King. It’s a powerful book and I still recommend it today. Animals …
There is a maxim that “nothing happens in publishing in the summer.” Apparently, that maxim doesn’t apply to environmental literature — as we’ve seen a wide range of impressive books …
Terra Firma Books, Trinity University Press, 2025 This fine collection of essays by Simmons Buntin, Satellite: Essays of Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far, leads with lizards. “They are tidy, …
Congratulations to Christina Gerhardt and the University of California Press for winning the ASLE Book Award for Sea Change. I reviewed this beautiful book awhile back and want reiterate what …
In 2014, Midge Raymond reviewed a novel that paved the way for contemporary eco-literature, a powerful indictment of the horrors of mountaintop removal mining. Ann Pancake’s powerful novel Strange as This Weather …
A Novel, by Kate Woodworth Sibylline Press, 2025 Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… the trees commingle their …
This fun, witty novel opens on author Jane Brooks being questioned by police, not only as a witness to a crime but also because her novel was found in the …
In 2021, JoeAnn Hart reviewed a powerful book in which every landowner has a role to play in leaving this planet a bit better than they found it. As a …
ASLE has announced the finalists for its biennial book awards and I’m excited to see a few titles reviewed here at EcoLit Books, like Sea Change, Soil and The Last …