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About Mark Molloy
Book Reviews editor - MAKE: A Literary Magazine. Plant Based 🌱💪NBN Episodes hosted by Mark:
January 6, 2024
The Wake of Crows
Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs an…
December 31, 2023
Beyond Cages
For all the diversity of views within the animal protection movement, there is a surprising consensus about the need for more severe criminal justice …
May 18, 2021
The Rights of Nature
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the…
May 3, 2021
Metazoa
Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and …
April 7, 2021
The Doggie in the Window
When journalist Rory Kress met Izzie, she didn’t think twice before bringing her home. She found the twelve-week-old wheaten terrier in a pet shop and…
March 22, 2021
The Reign of Wolf 21
Today I talked to Rick McIntyre about the first two books of his ongoing The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone series. The first book we discuss, The Rise…
March 19, 2021
The Sexual Politics of Meat
Today I talked to Carol J. Adams about two of her classic texts that have recently been republished. The first book we discuss, first published in 1…
February 5, 2021
A Plea for the Animals
Today I talked to Matthieu Ricard about two books. The first is A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat…
December 8, 2020
Thirty Times a Minute
Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing. …
December 3, 2020
Why Vegan?
Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly …
November 27, 2020
Animal Traffic
Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadsi…
November 24, 2020
An Unnatural Order
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1993 and then by Continuum in 1998, Jim Mason’s An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature has …
November 13, 2020
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monst…
November 3, 2020
The Animals' Agenda
A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf. Ever…
October 30, 2020
Animalkind
The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living mor…
October 13, 2020
A Traitor to His Species
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike. The industrial ci…
October 1, 2020
Mama's Last Hug
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (W. W. Norton & Company) is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional liv…
September 17, 2020
Becoming Wild
Some people insist that culture is strictly a human accomplishment. What are those people afraid of? Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families…
September 14, 2020
Run, Spot, Run
A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we’re providing them with …
September 8, 2020
Behemoth
In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman's Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Mod…
August 28, 2020
The World Philosophy Made
How has philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in? Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing n…
August 26, 2020
The Scientific Revolution
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Sh…
August 24, 2020
Calculus Reordered
Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas (Princeton UP, 2019) takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story …
August 20, 2020
The Secular Enlightenment
The Secular Enlightenment (Princeton University Press, 2019) is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people …