Strangers (Expanded Edition) Rebecca Tamás

A fascinating, lyrical exploration of the eco-political, from human and non-human bodies to landscapes. Tamás’ essays are deeply rooted in folklore and the fragility of existence. A stunning work of enquiry and eloquence. ”

So full of insight, compassion and reason. ”

Rebecca Tamás creates a shifting perspective in her essays which illuminates while giving unexpected pleasure. ”

Bursting with intellectual generosity. Deep wide roots and radical shoots. ”

To read Rebecca Tamás is to feel weirdly, uncannily creaturely, and to see all around us as pulsing with meaning. ”

Strangers is a much-needed lesson in how to love—unconditionally and immeasurably—a dying world. ”

Erudite yet intimate, moving yet fierce, Rebecca Tamás’ hungry exploration of the world – occurring at the porous boundary between literary forms – made me rethink what it means to be humane. ”

Rebecca Tamás writes searingly on loss, transformation, art and the body. Her writing is tender and sharp, brimming with heat ”

Strangers is an extraordinary, essential book. Both quiet and loud. Strange yet explicit. ”

exciting and clear-eyed ”

These essays are sharp, purposeful, moving and strange: necessary writing for now. ”

The writing in these essays is luminous and urgent, intensely intimate and wildly global. Strangers is an intricate exploration of environmental precarity, literary strangeness, and the importance of the nonhuman. ”

Strangers is a work of generous, optimistic curiosity, one which forgoes the easy promise of a world to come and invites us instead into a relationship of charged “feral intimacy” with a world that is already here. ”

Tamás builds a world so intimate for us here, teaching us how to unlearn and relearn, relive and relove. ”

This text is an echoing, unstoppable bell. ”

A passionate and poetic exercise in empathy for everything. ”

a beautiful exploration of our relationship with nature ”

intriguing and generous ”

The essays appear not as fragments but as portals, dropping deep into the currents of contemporary ecological thought and lived experience… ”