Category: Literature
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Growing Love and Thorns
“Growing Love and Thorns While Reading Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’” My husband and I, fatigued from pandemic fear and wishing to travel as Covid-19 restrictions had decreased, planned a trip to Europe this summer. We wished to visit friends in Austria and Belgium who couldn’t attend our wedding in 2021, and my husband had… Read more
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“That Hairy Heart Inside of Us”
“That Hairy Heart Inside of Us” – Some thoughts on Daniel Ogden’s new book and wolves. “To be rigorous about wolves—you might as well expect rigor of clouds.” – Barry Lopez Of Wolves and Men Daniel Ogden’s new book The Werewolf in the Ancient World is a survey of primarily classical Greece stories of… Read more
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Beasts of Prairie and Woods
Review of Beloved Beasts by Michelle Nijhuis Corpses of bison strewn across a field. An 1899 woodcut of a woman adorned in feathers, a live bird, clutched by its tail, held aloft in one hand. A man wearing a camouflage coat wades through snow, hoping to find wolf tracks, eager for “the visitors… Read more