Reviews

When the Whales Leave

by Yuri Rytkheu (translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse)
Reviewed by Bathsheba Demuth

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 →

Salmon

by Mark Kurlansky
Reviewed by Jason Y. Wood

Patagonia, 2020. $30, 448 pages. Available here.   IT’S COMMONLY thought that various species of salmon are indicative of the impact of humankind through the fishes’ success, failure, and outright disappearance Continue reading →

Owls of the Eastern Ice

by Jonathan C. Slaght
Reviewed by Melissa Holbrook Pierson

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 →

Tales of Two Planets

by John Freeman (Editor)
Reviewed by Heather Marx

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 →

Leave It As It Is

by David Gessner
Reviewed by Duane Jundt

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 →