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What I'm reading: women at work; women in love

I'm off to ancient Greece and 19th-century France, reading Selby Wynn Schwartz's After Sappho.

Nov 13, 2022 •

October 2021

Raising our voices

What happens when lone enraptured males are banished and women speak up about nature? I'm reading Katharine Norbury's Women on Nature.

Oct 1, 2021 •

September 2021

When spring ain't spring

I get grumpy about European seasons and read Richard Mabey's biography of Gilbert White

Sep 3, 2021 •

August 2021

Getting salty, feeling blue

Reading The Salt Path and cooking through lockdown. Again.

Aug 6, 2021 •

June 2021

The Fox and the Raven

I'm reading Catherine Raven's The Fox & I

Jun 4, 2021 •

May 2021

Can you see what it is yet?

Reading Christopher Neve's Unquiet Landscape

May 21, 2021 •

Finding home on the range

Reading Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces

May 7, 2021 •

April 2021

The Maine thing

Reading Sarah Orne Jewett for the first time

Apr 15, 2021 •

The good shepherd

I've been reading James Rebanks's English Pastoral

Apr 2, 2021 •

March 2021

A river runs through it

Nature writing story in Australian Geographic, and swimming rivers with Akiko Busch

Mar 19, 2021 •

Quotable quotes plus profound philosophy

I'm reading the most Instagrammable of nature writers, Aldo Leopold

Mar 5, 2021 •

February 2021

Beauty, God... and Kleenex

A classic of nature writing never fails to astonish: I'm reading Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Feb 19, 2021 •

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