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:

• 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.
• Giono, Jean. (2016 – new translation). Hill. New York Review Books.
• Hall, Matthew. (2019). The Imagination of Plants: A Book of Botanical Mythology. SUNY Press.
• Hallett, Alyson. (2019). Stone Talks. Triarchy Press.
• Hood, Mary A.(forthcoming November 2017). All the Spectral Fractures: New and Selected Poems. Albany, NY: Shade Mountain Press.
• Hultman, Martin and Pulé, Paul M. (2018). Ecological Masculinities. Routledge.
• 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.
• Lindholdt, Paul. (2018). Making Landfall.. Farmington, Maine: Encircle Publications, LLC.
• Lombard, David. (2019). Techno-Thoreau Aesthetics, Ecology and the Capitalocene. Quodlibert.
• Loribiecki, Marybeth. (2016) A Fierce Green Fire: Aldo Leopold's Life and Legacy, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press.
• MacCormack, Patricia. (2020). The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene. Bloomsbury Academic.
• McMurry, Andrew. (2018). Entertaining Futility: Despair and Hope in the Time of Climate Change. Texas A&M University Press.
• Nokkentved, Niels S. (2019) To Think Like a Mountain: Environmental Challenges in the American West. Washington State University Press.
• Rosen, Michael J. (2017). Every Species of Hope: Georgics, Haiku, and Other Poems. Trillium, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press.
• Russell, Craig. (2017) Fragment. Thistledown Press.
• Sandilands, Catriona (Ed.). (2019). Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times. Caitlin Press.
• Scheub, Ute. (2016). Terra Preta: How the World’s Most Fertile Soil Can Help Reverse Climate Change and Reduce World Hunger. Greystone.
• Shepherd, Kelly. (2016). Shift. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Thistledown Press.
• Smith, Andrew F. (2016). A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Stefanovic, Ingrid Leman (Ed.). (2020) The Wonder of Water: Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice. University of Toronto Press.
• Taylor, Jesse Oak. (2016). The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf. University of Virginia 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.
• Tønnessen, Morten et.al. Eds. (2016). Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Vakoch, Douglas A. & Sam Mickey (Eds.). (2018) Ecofeminism in Dialogue. Lanham/London: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington.
• Walker, Nicole. (2018). Sustainability: A Love Story. Ohio State University Press.
• Wirth, Jason M. (2017) Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis. SUNY Press.
• 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.
• Yunt, Jeremy. (2017). Faithful to Nature: Paul Tillich and the Spiritual Roots of Environmental Ethics. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
• Zurick David. (2017). Morning Coffee at the Goldfish Pond: Seeing a World in the Garden. Shanti Arts Publishing.

Films Requiring Reviewers:

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