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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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Young Readers Ask: The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
“Young Readers Ask” is a new Orion web series where young readers interview authors about books. This is our second installment. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells Tim Duggan Continue reading
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The Seabird’s Cry
Henry Holy & Co., 2018. $32, 416 pages. FULMAR, puffin, kittiwake, gull, guillemot, cormorant and shag, shearwater, gannet, great auk “and its cousin razorbill,” albatross. The Seabird’s Cry accompanies a dozen Continue reading
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The Lost Words
House of Anansi Press, 2018. $40, 128 pages. THE LOST WORDS is neither a read-on-the-commute book nor a recline-in-bed-and-prop-on-your-belly book. Its weight and unapologetic size demand it be explored on a Continue reading
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Young Readers Ask: The Book of Snakes
“Young Readers Ask” is a new Orion web series where young readers interview authors about books. The Book of Snakes: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World Mark O’Shea Continue reading