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The 7 Best Bugs in Children’s Literature
A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, I met a musician who had lost his heart to city birds. He took me under his proverbial wing and, for a year, I played newborn Continue reading
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Acorns and Octavia
COMPRISING MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED species and two genera, oaks and their fruits abound in most temperate regions of the world, where they feed a great many organisms, from squirrels and Continue reading
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Slow Violence: An Interview with Daisy Hildyard
Daisy Hildyard’s first book, The Second Body, announced the presence of a curious figure: a deeply emotional writer of great intellect whose mindfulness of micro- and macro anxieties affords her work Continue reading
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James Cameron’s Avatar has an Anthropocene Problem
AVATAR — THE GLITTERING 2009 smash hit filled with crude metaphors and flashy action sequences — follows its hero, Jake Sully, on a journey from military man enmeshed in technology to Continue reading
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14 Recommended Poetry Collections for Winter 2022
Orion poetry editor Camille Dungy and friends are back at it, bringing you recommendations on some of the best recent books on animals, trees, time, refugees, place, bewilderment, grief, and Babyn Continue reading