Lay of the Land
Digging for Bees
“Forceps,” I called, and Therese placed the metal tool in my outstretched hand. I pinched the sharp ends together and lowered it into the narrow opening, keeping my eyes trained on Continue reading
Departments
Review
Exposure
Atria, 2019. $28, 400 pages. PARKERSBURG, West Virginia, 1998. Robert Bilott, a young corporate defense attorney, is approached by a gruff cattle farmer named Wilbur Earl Tennant. Tennant is frustrated by Continue reading
Review
One Long River of Song
Little, Brown, 2019. $27, 272 pages. WHO WAS Brian Doyle? He was a hilarious writer and a heartbroken man. He was a scamp, and he was as close to a holy Continue reading
Enumeration
7 Stages of Grief for the Anthropocene
Loss: Some of us have only known a life accompanied by facts of the climate crisis. Others remember decades of growing awareness around global heating and decades of inaction. In both Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Dispatch from the Alley
I’m the self-appointed inspector of the alley behind our house. A mop rests end-up on my neighbor’s chain-link fence, its teardrop loops of purple string drying in the heat. Wisteria, I Continue reading