“If you want a piece of property to go downhill,” Madeleine Blais wrote in a memoir titled “To the New Owners” (2017), “just leave it in the care of a bunch of word people.” “If you want a piece of ...
Barbara Kingsolver does something amazing in her new novel. She takes a historical figure — a naturalist who corresponded with Charles Darwin in the late 19th century — and imagines her life in ...
Today's episode is all about two books that find parallels across long stretches of time. First, an interview with Barbara Kingsolver and former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro about Kingsolver's novel ...
A few years ago, I bought floral wallpaper covered in flowers and vines and Venus flytraps and ants. Designed by a small company called Grow House Grow, the name of the pattern was "Ms. Treat." The ...