...this is an elegant, thought-provoking, and gorgeously illustrated year-long chronicle of life among Yellowstone’s wolves, one that reveals the animal not in isolation, not on a pedestal, but as one thread of this special ecosystem.
— Erica Berry, author of Wolfish
Selected Writing
A conversation with Jeff VanderMeer
“There is no one quite like Jeff VanderMeer. With his naturalist’s eye, philosopher’s heart, and extreme imagination, the man can set a singular saturated mood–one that positively vibrates with life, mystery, strange beauty, and dread–in his delightfully bizarre fiction...”
On emulating what you love
“A rippling viridescent fleck just an inch or two long, Elysia chlorotica might easily be mistaken for a bit of leaf floating through brackish waters. Indeed, these sacoglossan sea slugs would hardly object to the comparison, so singular is their relationship to the color green, so fine their imitation in clover mantle and olive horns...”
A new book about tree collectors shows how arboreal curation is an outlet for art and activism
“After spending time in this varied commonwealth, you’ll undoubtedly experience an intense desire to recline under the shade of a leafy canopy. But something even more profound is happening here...”
