For our May Movie discussion, we’re watching WALL-E, the 2008 Pixar film about waste, loneliness, technology, love, and what it might mean to "come down to the ground." WALL-E is available on several streaming platforms. If you can't access the full film, our reader also includes a link to a freely accessible YouTube playlist with […]
April will be “Putting the Book in Book Club” month! We’ll discuss two very famous and different novels using pigs as key characters, and both of our selections are still taught (and sometimes censored) in schools around the U.S. and also widely read by people of all ages: Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945) and Charlotte’s […]
In March, we’ll explore a BBC Reader centered on visual art and short literary segments created across time and place by artists and authors who portray animals in their work to raise environmental and ethical questions related to animal rights. Alongside a range of visual artworks, we’ll read excerpts from older texts, including The Animal’s […]
