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Readers
78/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Evan Osnos
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
September 14, 2021
New Yorker writer Evan Osnos profiles three geographically and culturally different American localesâChicago, Greenwich, Conn., and Clarksburg, W. Va.âto take the pulse of a wildly divided nation.
What The Reviewers Say
Wildland is heavy on context, as Osnos supports his narrative by citing scholars of every stripe.
... a sprawling, fascinating journey through the dawning decades of the 21st century.
Osnos compellingly describes life in three places that represent the pre-spark wildland.
At its best, Wildland has an appealing shaggy-dog quality, as Mr Osnos listens to people tell stories of their lives in the two decades since the cataclysm. But as chapter after chapter derides typical liberal bogeymen—guns, money in politics, fossil fuels—it becomes predictable.
