Lay of the Land
Hickory, Gooseberry, Pipeline
WALKING THE CENTER of Lockatong Creek in late summer, my pants rolled up, I saw the tree. I had been stepping carefully so as not to catch little fish in my Continue reading
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When the Whales Leave
Milkweed Editions, 2020. $14, 136 pages. Available here. A YOUNG WOMAN named Nau lives alone on the edge of an Arctic sea, where she falls in love with a whale. The Continue reading
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. $28, 368 pages. Available here. JONATHAN SLAGHT, a modern-day knight-errant, adventures deep into the forests of the Russian Far East and returns with a magnetic Continue reading
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Tales of Two Planets
Penguin Books, 2020. $18, 320 pages. Available here. WHEN THE INTRODUCTION has more content and brilliance than most books, you know you are in for a treat in the remaining Continue reading
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Leave It As It Is
Simon & Schuster, 2020. $28.00, 352 pages. Available here. HE’S UP THERE, of course, but he often resides in the shadows, tucked in a granite niche between Jefferson, a man Continue reading