“EVERYBODY has a crow story,” Lyanda Lynn Haupt writes with a mixture of delight and dismay. Her collection of gently provocative essays suggests that our familiarity with crows may be a harbinger. Crows thrive in the environmental dissonance that we create, adapting to our urban lifestyle: they may be the dark shape of our future.
This isn’t to say that Haupt dislikes crows. She admires the “smart, endlessly wonderful, shining” creatures. She finds them worth watching and studying in all their complexity. Yet she admits that she cannot quite love them.
It is this conflict that makes Crow Planet…
