From OregonLive/ The Oregonian September 4, 2021: The start of the new school year makes it a fitting time to pick up Portlander Margot Wood’s debut young adult novel, Fresh, a queer retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma that spans its protagonist’s freshman year of college. Quick recap for those who haven’t encountered Emma in a while: …
This is Rachel Carson at her most personal. Beyond being a book about nature and its glories, it explores Carson’s deep relationship with the natural world. It’s also a fine training manual on how to find and nurture that same devotion, not only for yourself, but more importantly, for the youngsters in your life. It …
Shaun Tan is back with The Singing Bones, an illustrated collection of some of the fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Tan, who has been making fantastic and whimsical art for a few years now, presents a series of sculptures that encapsulate these stories. They’re very minimalist, but also very evocative. As Neil Gaiman says …
