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Four Legs Good

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Frank Brinkley

Like a shaman, Charles Foster seeks to channel his revelations of animal-ness to us mere humans. His stories are both sublime and hilarious, often within a single sentence: he has you breathing in with awe and out with a guffaw. Yet reading Being a Beast

Making a Scene

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Frank Brinkley

‘Pray have you Rocks and Waterfalls?/For I am as fond of Landskip as ever,’ wrote Thomas Gainsborough from Bath in 1768 to a friend in Derbyshire. Anna Pavord takes his eccentric usage ‘landskip’ and makes a verb of it, coming up with the perfect title for a book that skips enjoyably across the British landscape, […]

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