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lexrambeau's review
challenging
dark
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
laura_sonja's review
4.25
"The World Made Fresh" and "Fun Hole" were my favourite essays in this collection
bibliocyclist's review
4.0
Have you or anyone you’ve known ever communicated with a plant? Or perhaps become one? Is the best reading “uncertain reading,” reading that invites confusion? Where is the pale, what is it for, and what lies beyond? If you’re open to cognitive dissonance, if you count yourself as a reader of “fan nonfiction,” if you concur that the “boundary-disintegrating experience of erotic love is akin to the experience of encountering the written word,” check out Death by Landscape, Elvia Wilk’s collection of essays about life and literature in our late-Anthropocene age of mass extinction. As you read, ask why it’s “so much easier to give a name to evil than to locate the terror within,” if boundaries function best as treasure maps to transgression, and whether “heaven really looks like an iPhone,” and follow Wilk’s literature-laden trail through a forest of alternatives to the degradations of the present state.
xjuliaaaaaax's review
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
A really interesting collection of essays looking at society through literature/media and their relationship. That does nothing to fully capture what is included in this collection but I don’t think a single sentence or two possibly could.
tinamayreads's review
5.0
DEATH BY LANDSCAPE by Elvia Wilk is a stellar collection of essays! Once I got into this book I couldn’t put it down! These essays discuss women relating to nature, literary works, larping and her writing process. I found every essay extremely interesting! I’d tell you my fave essays but half of them were my faves. Sometimes I find it hard to articulate what I love about a book and that’s the case with this one. I just loved reading it! If you’re looking for you’re next non fiction read then pick this one up! I’m so eager to read Wilk’s novel Oval now! Luckily I checked and my library has it!!
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Thank you to Soft Skull Press for my gifted review copy!
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Thank you to Soft Skull Press for my gifted review copy!