Nathan Motulsky

Nathan Motulsky is a PhD student in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he studies 17th- through 19th-century American literature and ecological theory. His essays have appeared in the Point, the Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere.


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American Metamorphoses

“That rivers and wild rice can now become legal persons discloses the precarity of previously entrenched definitions of nature, personhood, property, and law: that is, the terms that constitute a world.”