online archive
4:00PM
OCT 18 2007
Literary ecologies
From 49th Parallel, Katerina Prajznerova (Masaryk): Emma Bell Miles’s Appalachia and Emily Carr’s Cascadia: A Comparative Study in Literary Ecology. A review of Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees by Richard Mabey (and more and more). A review of Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton (and more). Back to nature: A review of The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (and more). A review of The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic. The British are coming—to Antarctica: As nations jockey for the North Pole, London starts a race for the South, just in case there are minerals to exploit. Memo to Congress: The Arctic is on thin ice—and so are you. Inuit culture on the brink: Arctic natives fight cultural extinction. From Orion, losing home: Place is physical before it is emotional, which is why losing one feels like a punch in the gut.
