RaveThe BafflerAn engrossing, perceptive, and elegantly philosophical novel about the practice of paying close attention ... Asya is an acute and captivating narrator ... The Anthropologists is refreshing in its foregrounding of relatively low-stakes events.
Tom Comitta
PositiveThe New YorkerThe Nature Book sits at the crossroads of two innovative traditions: collage texts and posthuman fiction ... The book feels, at its best, symphonic, both in its structure—four movements, the third of which is the most distinct and the last of which references the first and goes out in a brilliant burst—and in the way language echoes, builds, works its accretive magic ... The Nature Book is, at times, maddening; I wanted it to be more slender, more controlled, less... wild. I missed people; I missed our stories. But I came to feel that time spent wandering in the book, even when I felt frustrated or lost, was of value; it was like time spent wandering through unfamiliar terrain ... In other ways, The Nature Book isn’t like a wilderness at all. Posthuman fiction can show us a lot of things, but what it can’t show us is a world without us. Comitta allows concrete traces of human presence to remain in the book’s metaphors and similes ... But we’re also there in the very fact of language. We’re there in the syntax itself. What we see in the book is not nature but a reflection of ourselves looking at nature and superimposed upon the view.
