Richard Kearney’s itineraries: Salvage, Hosting Earth, and Anacarnation

Richard Kearney’s work on embodiment, narrative, the roles of host and guest, and his philosophy of the earth come together in his latest novel, Salvage, the story of a young woman inheriting ancient wisdom and confronting the modern world in 1940s Ireland. The movement of thought between the novel and Kearney’s recently published philosophical dialogues (Anacarnation, Hosting Earth) is seamless, but themes of migration, the global, and the local that were part of earlier conversations surface here too. Salvage is a moving reflection on a time and place shaped by global histories of colonization and settlement but remains a time and place like no other.