Monthly Archives: April 2023

I know so many natural-world-obsessed readers who’ll get hooked on Katy Simpson Smith’s new novel, The Weeds, the way I did. This book brings together two unnamed women botanists, living a century apart, tasked with naming every species growing among … Continue reading →

I was knocked out by poet Anna Laura Reeve’s luminous debut collection, Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility, which finds moving, startling ways of entwining motherhood with the natural world. It was such a pleasure to write about … Continue reading →