
Laura Marris
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Laura Marris
@lauramarris
writer • translator of francophone lit • author of The Age of Loneliness out now from @GraywolfPress • she/her






“To read Marris is to find oneself not only in the hands of a lonely soul, but also in those of a dogged detective, an astute historian, & a keen forensic anthropologist.” @LaurenMarkham_ scrupulous & deep on @lauramarris @LAReviewofBooks. lareviewofbooks.org/article/anothe…



"Marris’s nine, tightly woven essays defy the inadequacies of language to describe the wounded natural world." @LaurenMarkham_ considers personal and planetary grief, longing, and estrangement in her review of Laura Marris’s "The Age of Loneliness." lareviewofbooks.org/article/anothe…



“Muslims do not clothe the dead. We bury them nude / wrapped in white like righting a broken bone.” From “ART OF WAR” by Rashed Aqrabawi, winner of BOMB’s 2024 Poetry Contest. Read the three winning pieces in the fall issue. bombmagazine.org/articles/three…



In “The Age of Loneliness,” Laura Marris “deftly braids together investigations into the harms humans have incurred on the natural world with her own experiences of loneliness.” Read Cara Blue Adams’s review from our Editor’s Choices. bombmagazine.org/articles/laura…

In “The Age of Loneliness,” Laura Marris “deftly braids together investigations into the harms humans have incurred on the natural world with her own experiences of loneliness.” Read Cara Blue Adams’s review from our Editor’s Choices. bombmagazine.org/articles/laura…




"She has given us a model of expression, inquiry & attitude to begin to resist the normalization of our lonely disconnection from what has left and what is leaving.": @ronslate on THE AGE OF LONELINESS by @lauramarris @GraywolfPress bit.ly/4gmZasp






