In “Siri Tells a Joke,” Debra Gwartney writes about her grief following the death of her husband, the writer Barry Lopez, in late 2020. Lopez was a renowned author of nearly twenty books of nonfiction and fiction, who traveled to eighty countries and often wrote about remote and exotic places. His work was grounded in a deep reverence for nature. Margaret Atwood writes that he spoke “the language of our inseparable connection with the natural world,” and Bill McKibben says, “No one has worked harder to make sense of our present civilization.”