Animal Studies

The first section of this review begins with two works that offer new insights into the topic of farmed animals: Adam Searle, Jonathon Turnbull, and Catherine Oliver’s ‘Climate Cattle: Metabolic Intervention in the Good Anthropocene’ and Lisa B. Bauer’s Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species. Section 2 explores human–animal communication through Kristine Hill’s ‘Cat–Human Intersubjectivity and Joint Meaning-Making within Multispecies Families and Communities’, David Tierney’s ‘“The Poetry of a Dingo’s Bite”: Communication within Nonhuman Animal Play’, and Dave Wilson’s ‘Sounding Together: A Reflection on Extending Acoustic Assemblages and Transforming Sonic Environments in Improvisative Music’. Two edited collections, Vera Fibisan and Rachel Murray’s Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture and Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, and Susan Tacent’s Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, provide imaginative commentary on extinction and conservation in Section 3. The final section navigates the possibilities of ‘animal futures’ in Matthew Calarco’s The Three Ethologies: A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human–Animal Relationships, providing a fitting conclusion.