Handling Filth: Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Handling Filth: Simple Sabotage Field Manual uses CIA and military metaphors to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and interpersonal traumas of the early 2020s, and the author's own experience with illness and sociopolitical strife. The book is held together by ecological, especially birding, symbolism that explores the coming climate crisis.

"It's both stirring and alarming to apply to one's brain a book like Schickling's Manual, a book that resembles the brain itself: miniature a...