We had such a good discussion as we analyzed the wildlife photographs in our Fall 2025 Book Club session on “Photography as Advocacy” that we didn’t have time to look at sanctuary photography in the same detail. For the January BBC, we will take a close look at sanctuary photographs, including a selection from OMI, […]
In February, 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 […]
March 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 […]
