Political Media Review

I picked up So Much Pretty looking to escape the world and its many disappointments. What I found instead was a story that could very well happen in my community, to my friends, to their children…a terrifying prospect. And yet, I kept reading. As the suspense mounted, as a girl went missing, as the chapters began to be numbered as police evidence, I could not turn away

Using art as a medium, or platform, for ideological proselytizing has always been a difficult process for the artist. Will the political content outweigh and compromise the aesthetics, or will the artist’s style dilute and deflate the message? Derrick Jensen walks a fine line in his fiction; as a radical political thinker and primitivist evangelist, he is peerless.

Derrick Jensen is particularly skilled in finding new ways to say the same old thing: this guy has been hammering away at industrial civilization in print for years now, and he always finds a new approach, a different tack, for each of his books.

“What do you read for fun” is indubitably one of those questions for which answers are reserved for fiction writing, Garfield and celebrity gossip magazines. Fun. Harmless a word, though loaded with assumptions.