Reviews

Silence

by Jane Brox
Reviewed by Belle Boggs

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. $27, 320 pages. The ideal way to read Jane Brox’s books, which consider human interaction with the environment over long stretches of time, is during some kind Continue reading →

Underland

by Robert Macfarlane
Reviewed by Robert M. Thorson

W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. $27.95, 384 pages. UNDERGROUND is a direction in Cartesian space. Underworld is a domain of myth. Underland is an actual, breathable place below Earth’s surface, Continue reading →

The Last Whalers

by Doug Bock Clark
Reviewed by Jason Wood

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 →

Amity and Prosperity

by Eliza Griswold
Reviewed by Brady Huggett

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 →

Atlas of Poetic Botany

by Francis Hallé with Eliane Patriarca
Reviewed by Kerri Arsenault

The MIT Press, 2018. $24.95, 128 pages. ATLAS OF POETIC BOTANY is a hand-drawn collection of plants from equatorial rainforests that have sometimes strange but often beautiful and surprising characteristics, like Continue reading →