Between the Lines

Reviewing books, movies, plays, and exhibitions that contribute to fostering cultures of sustainability.

Watching the Trees Grow

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A…

Intertidal: Entranced by Nature

The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides   Adam Nicholson  London: William Collins, 2021, 370…

Give Nature Legal Rights

 The Forest Fights Back  Jessica Den Outer Pluto Books: London, 2026. 151 pages. 14.99 GBP This short book –…

Of Birds and Fish

Under the Glacier Halldór Laxness New York: Vintage, 2004. 240 pages Susan Sontag’s introduction, appropriately…

When Giants Sleep, and Lights Turn On

Sleeping Giants offers a haunting tribute to Iceland’s thawing glaciers, through a lens that invites…

On Whaling in Iceland

Sjávarblámi / Sea’s Blue Yonder Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson Exhibition, National Gallery of Iceland,…

Love and Snails in Times of War

Endling is a smart, darkly comic tale of snails, love, and wartime guilt set against…

A Future Stuck in the Past 

A climate-ruined world feeds on carbon protein and memories of what was. What We Can…

Life That Ran Away 

A tragic-comic journey with a Nobel-prize winning physicist embarked on saving the world, and by extension, his life.  Solar   Ian…

All the Pretty Rivers 

A triple tour of rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada that highlights the disastrous effects of human…