The slow process of reinhabiting New Orleans goes on, with residents tentatively stepping back into once-familiar haunts that Hurricane Katrina rendered alien.

Mr. Marsh's "Wisconsin Death Trip" is less a film of Mr. Lesy's book than a quiet reinhabiting of the world it found, or made.

Terry Tempest Williams writes that in 2000, Hardin founded the Animá teachings (www.animacenter.org), a self-described "empowering set of nature based insights and practices" detailed in his self-published books The Way of Anima and Home: Reinhabiting Self, Recovering Sense Of Place.