Bathsheba Demuth

Bathsheba Demuth is author of Floating Coast, as well as assistant professor of history and environment and society at Brown University.

Review

When the Whales Leave

by Yuri Rytkheu (translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse)
Reviewed by 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 →