A review by bibliocyclist
Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk

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.