Review
The Yellow House
Grove Atlantic, 2019. $26, 384 pages. IN A RECENT New York Times podcast interview, Sarah Broom reflected that in the era of climate upheaval, we’re all living with an inheritance of Continue reading
Departments
Review
This Land is Our Land
Princeton University Press, 2019. $19.95, 200 pages. “There are many ways to claim a terrain — by force and by force of the imagination, by cartography and story telling,” writes author Continue reading
Review
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Penguin, 2019. $10, 112 pages. Earlier this year, I attended the Cambridge, UK, branch of the second Global Climate Strike for Future, in which activists in nearly eighteen hundred cities spread Continue reading
Lay of the Land
A Window as Wide as the World
One afternoon, my two-year-old daughter and I idled around our apartment complex in Bangalore, watching a dragonfly hover over a thorn, when suddenly she began pointing toward the fringe of lawn Continue reading
Enumeration
7 Rites to Perform Upon Finding a Dead Animal
The dappled fawn tangled in a line of barbed wire. Stop pedaling your bicycle. Dismount and quietly guide it to the wet, harried fur splayed out in the nodding grass. Continue reading