What would you say is the mark of a good anthology: loving every essay in it, or loving only some? Now that I’m old I find myself grateful for editors who take risks, who include voices I might not otherwise hear.

This is an exceptional collection. All the entries made me think, or change the way I think. Some made me work. It’s been two weeks since I finished reading, and I’m still mulling over parts of it. I love the recurring themes of language: “kinning” as an active verb, use of proper pronouns for nonhuman life forms, how our words shape (and limit) the ways we see the world around us.