Daniel B Smith reviews Annie Dillard’s latest novel The Maytrees at slate.com, and it’s a rave: “At times, The Maytrees acts like vintage Dillard: It contains gorgeous, meticulous descriptions of the outdoors that springboard into the Platonic ether, into meditations on devotion, loss, and time. … The result is one of the most lucid and effective books Dillard has ever produced.”