For creative souls who yearn to achieve greatness in their work, the insights shared throughout Peter Turchi’s (Don’t) Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Before will be... Read More

María Sánchez’s memoir concerns the inequalities that women face in the Spanish countryside, even as rural communities fade away. Sánchez works in a field that’s... Read More

Janisse Ray’s memoir in essays, "Wild Spectacle", centers the role of the wilderness in her life. Throughout the years, Ray has turned to nature in the pursuit of... Read More

Collection editor Dale Peterson calls his experiences with elephants in Asia and Africa “among the most transformative” of his life. The heartwarming, heartrending essays of... Read More

The French word “terroir” refers to the whole environment in which something is grown, and Natasha Sajé’s essay collection Terroir: Love, Out of Place applies this term... Read More

The earth provides us with the resources we need to stay alive. Unfortunately, making use of those resources usually involves doing damage—to the animals we sacrifice for food... Read More

An intertwining of personal, natural, and political history reveals an eager, sensitive mind. That a tree could be called “central to the march of civilization” came as no... Read More

"Coming of Age at the End of Nature" ushers in a new wave of millennial thought on the environment, climate change, and the art of living. This groundbreaking collection of... Read More

One of the worst wildfires in history hit Texas in 2011, and Randy Fritz was among those who lost his home to the blaze. Rather than a mere account of the fire, "Hail of Fire"... Read More

Luck, Hemingway said, is a fluid, elusive force that could come right up to us and still go unnoticed. But that definition doesn’t begin to explain the unusual things people... Read More

If Tarzan and Jane Goodall met for a drink at an eco resort in Ghana, would he have the good sense to shower first, and then thank her for putting Africa, conservation issues,... Read More

For a writer like Rebecca Solnit, it is impossible to walk through a pitch dark labyrinth in Iceland without thinking of Athena hacking her way out of Zeus’s head, labias,... Read More