In the journal Textual Practice, Berthold Schoene situates my book, Tree, in dialogue with recent works—in particular, the novels of Annie Proulx and Richard Powers—where trees assume storyful agency. “Battles is keen to signpost ways of rethinking and recalibrating our relationship with trees,” Schoene writes. “It is in this regard that Battles’ essay resembles The Overstory which, as we have seen, finds fertile ground for arborealist experimentation in the interstices between what is and can be said, on one hand, and what must remain suspended in the process of articulation, on the other. Battles shows a particular interest in experiences of spiritual and intellectual disorientation, or ‘bewilderment’, which result from allowing our ‘ways of doing trees’ (and indeed our ways of doing the entire world) to be interrogated and refracted by ‘trees doing the human’. Like Powers, Battles appears to be searching for some common ground from which interspecies plant-human communication can grow and elicit a sense of existential rapport between the human and the arboreal.” READ