Wes Jamison

Just as Odin's ravens, named Huginn and Muninn (translated to Thought and Memory), would whisper everything he couldn't see, so too do these and other mythical ravens—of Athena, the Biblical Eve and Noah, Coronis, and others—function in Jamison's essay collection: they are tools to interpret and make meaning of their world, rent as it is between the rural and urban,...