Reviews

Paying the Land

by Joe Sacco
Reviewed by Kerri Arsenault

Metropolitan Books, 2020. $29.99, 272 pages.  Artist and journalist Joe Sacco travels to the Northwest Territories and investigates a human conundrum in the Dene community: what are they willing to sacrifice Continue reading →

And Their Children After Them

by Nicolas Mathieu
Reviewed by David Varno

Other Press, 2020. $17.99, 432 pages.   FIRST PUBLISHED in France in 2018, the year of the gilets jaunes protests, Mathieu’s Prix Goncourt–winning novel captures the restless energy of dejected teenage Continue reading →

Toward Antarctica

by Elizabeth Bradfield
Reviewed by Tess Taylor

Red Hen/Boreal Books, 2019 $19.95, 155 pages.   “CAN’T JUST GO. Can’t, more to the point, just arrive, land. You must prepare yourself,” writes the poet Elizabeth Bradfield, in Toward Antarctica, Continue reading →

Floating Coast

by Bathsheba Demuth
Reviewed by Miranda Perrone

W. Norton & Company, 2019. $27.95, 416 pages.   “WHAT IS THE NATURE of history when nature is a part of what makes history?” To answer this question, environmental historian Bathsheba Continue reading →

Design with Nature Now

by Edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming
Reviewed by Julie Gabrielli

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2019. $80, 368 pages.   WHEN IT WAS published in 1969, Ian McHarg’s Design with Nature influenced generations of landscape architects and planners to employ layered Continue reading →