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The book depicts the tragedy of the ivory trade, for humans as well as for elephants, and, like “Black Beauty,” it sympathetically evokes one animal’s experience of human indifference and ...
This month we decided to focus on some of our favourite books told from the perspective of animals. Some of the most beloved characters in fiction happen to not be human. Authors use animals for ...
Here, the best fiction books of 2019. Who should be TIME’s Person of the Year for 2019? ... Janina is certain there must be a connection to the killings of animals.
From ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ to ‘Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH,’ animals are central to some of the most memorable novels Science fiction writers (and readers) love animals. Whether ...
Some have called Bill Broun's Night of the Animals (Ecco) prescient. The book's plot indeed dovetails eerily with some recent events — Brexit, terrorism — but in this smartly written dystopian ...
The previous day his editor, Jenna Johnson, had presented Animals as one of the year's "buzz books" to keep an eye on in 2011. “I teared up a little,” says Torres, 31. “I never even ...
A non-fiction science book about animal sexuality could read like a dry textbook, but Eliot Schrefer wanted his book to be accessible. Queer Ducks uses interviews with scientists, illustrations ...
I found that the science fiction books in those 10 elementary school libraries were checked out at a higher rate per book than all of the other genres. Science fiction had 1-2 more checkouts per ...
We love a good book. Sometimes we’ll even spend an extra $10 to get it in hardcover. That’s too pricey for the guys in “American Animals,” who embark on an epic literary heist.
The best new science fiction books of July 2024 The Matrix star Keanu Reeves’s debut sci-fi novel is out this month, written in collaboration with old hand China Miéville, and we also have new ...
An Austin writer makes an impressive debut in a novel about the interwoven lives of some memorable, deftly drawn characters.