Patricia Lockwood (LRB, 08/12/2021), “Pull Off My Head“: “Is Bear one of those 1970s books about growing out your armpit hair? Kind of, but not only. Is it a metaphor for our relationship to nature? Fuck off.” Marlena Williams (LitHub, 10/23/2020), “Sylvia Plath… Nature Writer?“: “‘The Fifty-Ninth Bear’ taught me about the darker, sulfuric thing bubbling under the surface of love, and I became a person suspicious of heterosexual romance, uninterested in marriage.” Naomi Ishiguro (Granta, 02/03/2020), “Bear“: “For a moment I was almost proud of her, even if it did mean we had to bring back this vast sixty-five-pound bear, to share our home with us.”