AN INVENTORY OF LOSSES

Each disparate object described in this booka Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love po em, an island in the Pacificshares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, and Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures th at have been lost to the world forever, and that, taken as a whole, open mesmerizing new vistas of how to think about extinction and loss.With...[Read more]