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From Zden\u011bk Miler\u2019s<\/span> \u201cKrtek a maminka.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Guild loyalty says I should probably choose a work of fiction for my favorite recent book, but I\u2019m not sure that anyone, with the exception of Octavia Butler, could serve up as glorious a museum of the unimaginable as Charley Eiseman and Noah Charney do in <\/span>Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species<\/span><\/i>. Have you ever seen a spongilla fly cocoon (silk lozenge haloed in a lacy mesh of bridal finery)? How about neatly-ranged eggs laid by a katydid along a blade of grass? I had thought myself well-versed in the range of parasitic terrors until I saw the work of a mummy wasp upon a sphinx moth caterpillar. And leaf miners! When my mortal hour is up, I will look back and see my life divided into the half when I hadn\u2019t known labyrinths like the ones they make existed, and the one after I came to understand that they are everywhere.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I came to this book when no amount of googling could solve the mystery of who had made the particularly stylized set of tunnels I kept finding on downed poplar in the woods, carved in a pattern I can best describe as a cross between fine hatchet marks, the grooves on a music-box cylinder, morse code, alien messages, and the exuberant scribblings of a child who has discovered the letter i<\/em> but has only a single sheet of paper. \u201cDotted insect lines on poplar logs,\u201d \u201cwood beetle straight lines dots poplar,\u201d \u201cstraight lines wood downed tree\u201d\u2014try them, they will lead you nowhere. Except they did lead me to Eiseman and Charney\u2019s book. Oh, the pleasure of realizing that something bound can deliver what the internet cannot! <\/span>Tracks & Sign <\/span><\/i>had a gallery of insect carpentry to choose from. While they didn\u2019t highlight the poplar chiseler I was looking for (I would later learn it was a shipworm\u2014one of those wonderful instances when natural history suggests a deep human history as well), by then it didn\u2019t matter. A great nature e-book both orders the world and leaves one with the sense of a vastness far beyond one\u2019s self. This one does both \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Daniel Mason, author of \u201c<\/b>A Case Study<\/b><\/a>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

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Shortly after World War II, Czechoslovakia <\/span>became a leading producer and exporter of LSD<\/span><\/a>. In the sixties, the CIA accused the Czechoslovak government of smuggling LSD to America to corrupt its flower youth. The CIA\u2019s own experiments with both acid and infiltrating American communities with illegal drugs are now well-known. But Czechoslovakia\u2019s government, and their scientists, didn\u2019t see acid as a weapon: they advocated for the drug\u2019s therapeutic\u2014and, notably, aesthetic\u2014benefits. Between the mid-fifties and the late seventies, governmental agencies openly and freely distributed LSD to Czechoslovakia\u2019s creative communities, believing that tripping on acid would lead to better, bolder art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I cannot prove that groundbreaking early Czech animators like Zden\u011bk Smetana, Ji\u0159\u00ed Trnka, and Zden\u011bk Miler benefited from these policies, but I prefer to believe they did. Their short animations have a trippy, dreamlike quality that makes them enjoyable for adults even though most were originally made for children. My kids watch them on YouTube with a combination of confusion and recognition: these early animations have inspired many latter-day artists across the world, including the creators of <\/span>Steven Universe<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking to introduce yourself or your loved ones to golden-age Czech animation, Miler\u2019s <\/span>Krtek<\/span><\/i> is the obvious place to start. First shown at the Venice Film Festival in 1957, these cartoons about a little mole are permanently burned into the collective unconscious of my generation of Eastern Europeans. Voiced by Miler\u2019s daughters, Krtek yelps and coos at the world like a toddler but navigates his environments with surprising competence. In an episode entitled \u201c<\/span>Krtek a maminka<\/span><\/a>\u201d (The little mole and the mother), Krtek delivers a rabbit\u2019s three babies after officiating her marriage to a besotted fellow bunny. Miler depicts the logistics of birth-giving with a matter-of-factness that scandalized my twelve-year-old. \u201cIs that the rabbit\u2019s <\/span>vagina<\/span><\/i> opening?\u201d Oh yes, it is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Marta Figlerowicz, Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s interviewer for The Art of Fiction No. 258<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

When rummaging through the vast thrift store of history, one\u2019s hand sometimes lands on the sublime. One of my more sustaining finds has been Plotinus, the third-century Roman Egyptian philosopher whose <\/span>Enneads<\/span><\/i> now lie mostly dormant in the library stacks. He writes: \u201cthe Kosmos moves, seeking everything \u2026 this very motion is its eternal attainment \u2026 the Soul is ceaselessly leading the Kosmos towards itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Malachi Black, author of \u201c<\/b>Holding a Book I Haven\u2019t Read in Many Years<\/b><\/a>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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