Review
The Last Whalers
Little, Brown & Company, 2019. $15.99, 368 pages. Consider the experience of sitting in a darkened theater to watch a show, where the artistry on stage cooks up a bit of Continue reading
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Cosmic Fruit
COLD STRAWBERRY soup stimulates honeymooners. So goes the thought in rural France. Medieval botanists believed that strawberries, being many-seeded, aided fertility. Both Venus and Freyja, Roman and Norse goddesses of love, Continue reading
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Biking with Butterflies
WHAT I DIDN’ T KNOW, as I crawled through that ditch alongside a lonely Texas highway, was that a cop was racing to my rescue. Continue reading
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Amity and Prosperity
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. $27, 336 pages. IN 2007, while crossing a Nigerian river atop a steel drum because a nearby bridge had collapsed, Eliza Griswold recalled the Interstate 35W Continue reading
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Flight
THE GEESE LAND one day amid the asphalt and anger and radio static and sweat, their feathers bright against the dull shades of our lives. Celebrity comes quickly. Inmates press their Continue reading