Nicolai Howalt’s A Journey: The Near Future is miles away from his previous book, Old Tjikko—140 million miles away, actually.  Howalt’s Journey leaves behind Earth’s ancient spruces and settles on Mars, with its vistas of lithic tuff and desiccation. And the source material for this journey, much of which looks like oddly cropped collages of … Continue reading A Journey: The Near Future by Nicolai Howalt