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Reviews
The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle
ALBEDO IS A CURIOUS WORD, long unfamiliar to even the most informed. But it is soon to become…
Oil on Water
MARRYING FICTION and politics is risky. Nonfiction can explicitly reflect on ideas, present information,…
Cricket Radio
IT IS SURPRISING how few books there are on the songs of insects, since people have been listening…
The Moral Lives of Animals
IN MARCH 2006, I had dinner with Dale Peterson. Dale was eager to tell me about his ideas for a new…
Lucky Fish
EDITORS like dark poems better than joyful ones, I have heard. Or, some writers may believe, cynicism…
Journey of the Universe
HERE’S AN EQUATION for knowing where you are: Cosmology + Bioregionalism = Sense of Place.
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The Bird Sisters
AT THE HEART of The Bird Sisters is the enduring bond between sisters in the midst of a world…
Moby-Duck
THE CONVERGENCE ZONES of the world’s oceans (or world ocean, since they are all one) are vast…
Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment
Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment surveys the long history of photography’s…
Swamplandia!
FLORIDA IS A PLACE of dualities: swift, sprawling development and vast, swampy wilderness. Cosmopolitan,…
