Written by Bronte CronsberryMay 22, 2023

The Aesthetics and Pursuit of Hope: Imaging a Solarpunk Future in Becky Chamber’s A Psalm for the Wild Built

The beaten and bloodied sole survivor traversing a field of dust is replaced by a smiling monk riding down a forested path. This calmer scene is the vision of the future that Becky Chambers presents in her novella A Psalm for the Wild Built and its sequel A Prayer for the Crown Shy which follow […]

Written by Bronte CronsberrySeptember 20, 2020

More Than Enough: Reflections on Hardship in The Barren Grounds

For most readers David Robertson’s The Barren Grounds will be in many ways a familiar stroll through something similar to C.S. Lewis’s Narnia. But despite all the ways in which this new Candian book for young readers parallels the classic story, The Barren Grounds is a powerful challenge to European ways of knowing that challenges […]

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The Aesthetics and Pursuit of Hope: Imaging a Solarpunk Future in Becky Chamber’s A Psalm for the Wild Built

More Than Enough: Reflections on Hardship in The Barren Grounds