Other Essays and Criticism about Loren Eiseley
Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley
Meeting Loren Eiseley – A Remembrance
Faith in the Distance: Wisdom of Loren Eiseley
Analysis and Reviews
Ideas and Art of Loren Eiseley
Sustainability
Inside the Ordinary (reviews)
- One EarthlingA Review of Earthling: A New Ethics for the Anthropocene by Dean Wallraff I’ve written a handful of reviews for authors I’ve known, but none whose narrative includes the author’s remarkable — and relevant — life story. Privy as I am to some of this author’s personal history, some of which is readily shared in […]
- Elevating the Ordinary: Gravity vs. Karl Ove KnausgaardKarl Ove Knausgaard's Summer, like the season it marks, is as much about the heat of dissipation and as it is of lawn sprinklers and cherry trees that push back with a stubborn, if not irresistible delight. Summer is less about writing than about attention. The post Elevating the Ordinary: Gravity vs. Karl Ove Knausgaard […]
- The Little Clan of Literate DiscourseWhile at times this reviewer of The Little Clan is himself desperate for "the casual entitlement of vertical parity" with worthwhile, enviable acquaintances and adversaries, for someone who might call out my "distinctive aesthetic" or conversations in which the participants bemoan their "desultory attempts" at topics less "pedestrian," the world drawn in The Little Clan […]
- What passes for perverted is normal, and vice versa: a review of Jen Silverman’s The Island Dwellers collectionThere is such a thing as a credible joke — one based in astute observation, irony, paradox. Such humor lies at the opposite end of puns: it’s richly semantic. If credibility matters, do read this collection. You’ll be laughing, but the laughter is razor sharp. Even the titles in this short story collection by Jen […]
- Sync with the Inefficiencies of TimeSync with the Inefficiencies of Time: DarkViolin reviews The After Party, a poetry collection by Jana Prikryl. The post Sync with the Inefficiencies of Time appeared first on Inside the Ordinary.