![]() Army fashion advisers and stink-bomb engineers, delighting in discoveries such as a Hook and Loop Task Group devoted to the quest for a quieter Velcro. ![]() In “ Grunt,” her 2016 book on “the curious science of humans at war,” Roach interviewed U.S. Institutions, with their many bureaucratic branchings, provide an especially rich selection of ecological niches in which to uncover highly specialized forms of life. You can see it in her attention to business cards and job titles, which she collects like a philatelist raiding a flea market: Human-Elephant Conflict Specialist, Bear Manager, Danger-Tree Faller-Blaster. Below the clever surface of her prose runs a preoccupation with human occupations. Like haiku, these monosyllabic titles are dense with meaning, and “Fuzz” follows the pattern in evoking both the furry elements and their attempted enforcement. ![]() ![]() This keen eye for quirk runs through Roach’s career - that, and a penchant for catchy, single-word titles: “ Bonk,” “ Gulp,” “ Stiff,” “ Spook” (2010’s “ Packing for Mars” being a garrulous exception). ![]()
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