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Julia Phillips debut novel is ambitious, toys with and reverses common tropes, and while not always fulling the broad ambition of her exotic locale and subject’s promise, nonetheless creates a vivid world and piercing study of love and loss, and in equal parts their pain and beauty.  Disappearing Earth isContinue reading “Love in the Frozen Wastes of Kamchatka”

When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to step upon the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, a watershed moment was at hand. Sir Edmund’s ascent of the mountain was man’s final and total flexing of dominion over the natural world. Today, only the deepest crevicesContinue reading “Thoughts on Hav”