Recent Articles
14 July 2025 : The Financial Times
An ode to animals, hooked on plastics — and other notable new books on the environment
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28 June 2025 : The Observer
Jay Griffiths is an evangelical guide to the restorative powers of our non-human companions.
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3 June 2025 : Psychology Today
'An exuberant, playful, and deeply inspirational book.'
- Marc Bekoff in Psychology Today
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'Griffiths channels her customary compassion and wisdom'
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Jay Griffiths’ luminous exploration of wildness in all its forms has established her as one of ecological literature’s most important figures.
How Animals Heal Us is a soul-stirring meditation on the bond between humans and animals, written with the lyrical intensity and the philosophical depth that characterise her work. In this slim but potent volume, Griffiths traverses grief, madness, and healing, guided not by medical hands or societal platitudes, but by the instinctual, generous presence of animals—creatures who, in her telling, offer an elemental form of salvation.
Griffiths does not anthropomorphize: her reverence is not sentimental but spiritual, rooted in humility. From the fox who watches her from the woods to the horse who bears her sadness without judgment, each animal becomes a silent witness to pain and transformation. Griffiths writes with the raw ache of someone who has known despair intimately, yet she lets the natural world speak its own language of solace.
In a world often severed from its ecological roots, How Animals Heal Us reads like a re-enchantment. Her writing is both elegy and invocation, reminding us that healing might not be a cure, but a reconnection to the web of life. It is a profound, poetic, and necessary book for anyone who has ever been saved by the silent wisdom of other species.
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31 January 2019 : AEON
Daily Grace - Everyday rituals are ephemeral prayers, a hint to the gods for protection, encircling life like a fragrant garland.
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8 February 2017 : AEON
Fire, Hatred and Speed! - The glamour, bullying and violence of the libertarian alt-Right has a direct political ancestor, and it’s not Nazi Germany.
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8 June 2016 : AEON
Schooled in Nature - There’s a way to teach children without colonising their minds: the lifelong way of the indigenous people of Mexico.
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12 October 2012 : AEON
Forests of the Mind - What is the greatest human gift? It is metaphor, carrying a cargo of meaning across the oceans that divide us.
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20 May 2007 : The Guardian
The final frontierswoman -Jay Griffiths's Wild is part travelogue, part call to arms and wholly original.
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