Bookworm, no. 155
Claire Hurley reviews Dan Werb’s “Our Wild Familiars.” Christina Apa on Emily McBride’s “Queen Mab.” A cover artist Q&A. Inside the July/August issue.
Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World
Dan Werb
Knopf Canada
336 pages, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook
In Our Wild Familiars, the Toronto epidemiologist Dan Werb makes one thing clear: “Cities are nature.” One would be hard-pressed to argue with his sweeping study of synanthropes—the wild animals who dwell a…
