Book/Film Review Information

For Publishers/Authors:

If you are interested in having a book submitted to The Trumpeter for review, please send an email to Wendell Kisner, our Book Review Editor, at wendellk@athabascau.ca. Please do not send review copies to the editors unless a reviewer has been arranged for the book.

If you are interested in writing a review on one of the books or films listed below, or if you would like to review something not on the list but which you think might be a good fit with the Trumpeter, please contact Wendell Kisner at wendellk@athabascau.ca.

Book review guidelines:

The following are some general guidelines for book reviews submitted to the Trumpeter.

Avoid the following two extremes

Uncritical endorsement that overlooks problems.
Unfair criticism that either

1. fails to address arguments the author presents which may allay the concerns raised, or
2. faults the author for not doing something s/he wasn't trying to do in the first place.

Word limit

Most reviews tend to be between about 500 and 1500 words, with a 3000 word upper limit. Once a book review exceeds 3000 words, it begins to look more like a critical response paper than a book review and should be submitted as an article instead. Try to eliminate tangential discussions not directly related to the content of the book being reviewed. Alternatively, write a critical paper that more carefully develops the reviewer's own arguments, then submit it as a paper for publication rather than as a book review.

Books Requiring Reviewers:

• Anker, Peder. (2020). The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World. Cambridge University Press.
• Attfield, Robin. (2021). Environmental Thought: A Short History. Polity.
• Butler, Jenna. (2018). Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. University of Alberta Press.
• Carlin, David & Walker, Nicole. (2019). The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet. Rose Metal Press.
• Ellis, Jim (ed.). (2018). Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West. University of Calgary Press.
• Fellows, Andrew. (2019). Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene. Routledge.
• France, Robert Lawrence. (2020). Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Jensen, Derrick; Keith, Lierre; & Wilbert, Max. (2021). Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It. Monkfish Book Publishing.
• Krueger, James G. (2018). The Disfiguration of Nature: Why Caring for the Environment is Inherently Conservative. Wipf and Stock.
• Lee, Daniel E. (2019) Caring for Creation: Hope in Difficult Times. Lanham/London: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington.
• Lent, Jeremy. (2021). The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. London: Profile Books Ltd.
• Lombard, David. (2019). Techno-Thoreau Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene. Quodlibert.
• MacCormack, Patricia. (2020). The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene. Bloomsbury Academic.
• Mickey, Sam; Tucker, Mary Evelyn; and Grim, John (eds.). (2020) Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing. Open Book Publishers.
• Nail, Thomas. (2021). Theory of the Earth. Stanford University Press.
• Nokkentved, Niels S. (2019) To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental Challenges in the American West. Washington State University Press.
• Peterson, Keith R. (2020) A World Not Made for Us: Topics in Critical Environmental Philosophy. SUNY Press.
• Sandilands, Catriona (Ed.). (2019). Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times. Caitlin Press.
• Serrano, Leonor María Martínez, and Gámez-Fernández, Cristina M. (Eds). (2021). Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World. Brill publishing.
• Stefanovic, Ingrid Leman (Ed.). (2020) The Wonder of Water: Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice. University of Toronto Press.
• Terpstra, John. (2018). Daylighting Chedoke. Wolsak & Wynn.
• Thomas-Pellicer, Ruth. (2018). The Places of God in an Age of Re-Embodiments: What is Culture? Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Vakoch, Douglas A. & Sam Mickey (Eds.). (2018) Ecofeminism in Dialogue. Lanham/London: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington.
• Wood, David. (2018). Deep Time, Dark Times: On Being Geologically Human. Fordham University Press.
• Wray, Britt. (2017). Rise of the Necrofauna: A Provocative Look at the Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction. Vancouver: Greystone Books.

Films Requiring Reviewers:

• Glacial Balance. Directed and produced by Ethan Steinman. glacialbalance.com