 In 2016 he published "Derrida’s Breakfast", a suite of essays on poetry, philosophy and animals, and early in 2018 completed the "100 Days Kangaroo Project", one hundred posts in one hundred days, offering a cross-section of the kangaroo in contemporary Australian society.He has recently completed a fifth novel, provisionally entitled "Metamorphosis", and "Animal Dreams", a substantial collection of essays on animals, literature and philosophy.In 2018 David Brooks retired from the editorship of "Southerly".