Criticism
The Beauty of the Natural World by Malik Wilson
October 2026
The material world, as described by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, is fragrant, pregnant, full of secret meanings. Things that are made speak to us, inform us, describe us, creating an inescapable odor of ideas. In A Symposium of the Natural World, Malik Wilson wades back into the earlier years, telling a dreamlike, childlike fable of natural enchantment, youthful wonder, and the fierce, constructed beauty that surrounds us.