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  1. Nov 24, 2021 · The anthropologist Nastassja Martin has written a slender but expansive book in which she grapples with the physical and philosophical fallout of a near-death experience.

  2. Oct 10, 2019 · 520 reviews 147 followers. February 8, 2022. French anthropologist, Nastassja Martin's account of her physical and psycho/spiritual recovery from a violent bear attack in the wilds of Siberia is told with a sort of cool emotional self analysis that gives a different feel than many survival tales.

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  3. Feb 2, 2022 · Nastassja Martin's poetic memoir dissects an unforgettable, harrowing encounter with an animal. February 2, 2022. The first time I camped overnight in Wyoming, I was handed a bright red canister of bear spray right before going to bed.

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  4. May 1, 2023 · In the Eye of the Wild. Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 245–246. Martin was a twenty-nine-year-old anthropologist working on animism in Siberia when a bear leaped on her. He raked her with his claws, put her head into his mouth, and was about to crush her skull when she stabbed him with her ice axe.

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    • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. (Knopf) 28 Rave • 24 Positive • 6 Mixed. “Klara and the Sun confirms one’s suspicion that the contemporary novel’s truest inheritor of Nabokovian estrangement—not to mention its best and deepest Martian—is Ishiguro … Never Let Me Go wrung a profound parable out of such questions: the embodied suggestion of that novel is that a free, long, human life is, in the end, just an unfree, short, cloned life.
    • No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. (Riverhead) 31 Rave • 13 Positive • 7 Mixed. Read an interview with Patricia Lockwood here. “Now Lockwood has put that strength into her first novel, No One is Talking About This, which leaves no doubt that she still takes her literary vocation seriously.
    • Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. (FSG) 32 Rave • 12 Positive • 7 Mixed • 1 Pan. “… a novel that takes the religious beliefs of its characters seriously, without ever forgetting how easily faith can twist itself into absurdity … is light on curmudgeonly social commentary.
  5. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker’s classic The Peregrine. Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.

  6. Dec 15, 2021 · In addition to our staff critics, Sarah Lyall, Janet Maslin and John Williams also review on occasion throughout the year, and here are some of the books they admired most in 2021.

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