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Professor of English at Saint Louis University Rhetoric, Media, Environment www.nathanielrivers.org

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Martin MacInnes: Gathering Evidence (2020, Atlantic Books, Limited) 5 stars

With extinction imminent, researchers visit an exclusive national park to observe one of the last …

Stunning

5 stars

MacInnes’ descriptive language always draws me in. It’s hypnotic at times, but in this novel I think it’s used deceptively. The ability to describe exquisitely is treated ambivalently. The twinned (or here married) practices of science and technology and their descriptive power are held in tension until the end.