Mary Ruefle's careful, measured sentences sound as if they were written by a thousand-year-old person who is still genuinely curious about the world. All of it. Trees. Crumbs. Doors. The all-consuming ...

In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before it was all greens and earth tones. It was the sudden awakening of a new aesthetic; our “shrew-like” ancestors, ...