{"id":10811,"date":"2021-09-25T21:56:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T21:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=10811"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:52:46","slug":"review-elemental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=10811","title":{"rendered":"Review: Elemental"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"390\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/elemental.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10242 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>I reviewed the wonderful anthology <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catranslation.org\/shop\/book\/elemental\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Elemental<\/em><\/span><\/a> for <em>Strange Horizons<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the review:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Elemental<\/em>\u2014with stories translated from the Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Japanese, Kurdish, German, French, and Polish\u2014is a lovely and sometimes disturbing exploration of the intersection of humanity and nature. This book, according to Two Lines, asks, \u201cHow can we understand our complex, ever-evolving relationship to the Earth and its elements?\u201d Cities fall into ruin, dams and pipelines shift natural waterways, weather researchers brave harsh conditions; and yet, through it all, the protagonists learn to adjust to nature\u2019s unpredictability and the inevitability of decay.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Read the entire review <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/non-fiction\/elemental-by-the-center-for-the-art-of-translation\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[135,128,150,132,1256,984,1255,234,937],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15844,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions\/15844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}