Art professor A. Laurie Palmer’s musing interdisciplinary work "The Lichen Museum" draws life lessons from often-overlooked organisms. Lichens, Palmer notes, have served as food, drink, dye, and decoration for millennia, though their... Read More

Determined to be a “faithful witness” to COVID-19, sociology professor Amy Kaler documented her shifting emotions, disrupted thinking, and attraction to nature. Spanning the year starting with mid-March of 2020, her concise,... Read More

“We are all apocalyptic now”: such is the solemn, realistic conclusion that Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen reach in "An Inconvenient Apocalypse", a hard-hitting philosophical reckoning with climate breakdowns, and with the social... Read More

Jacqueline Harpman’s "I Who Have Never Known Men" is a brilliant, spare science fiction novel in which a curious girl asks what remains after everything has been stripped away. In the beginning, the girl is caged with thirty-nine women... Read More

Looking back over his fifty-year career as a psychotherapist in California, David Richo notes that “one issue has come up with clients more often than any other: staying too long in what doesn’t work.” An opposite, but just as... Read More

In "Linea Nigra", a fragmentary work of cultural commentary, Jazmina Barrera investigates pregnancy as both a physical reality and a liminal state. The linea nigra, a stripe of dark hair down a pregnant woman’s belly, is a potent... Read More

"Translating Myself and Others" is an academic collection of Jhumpa Lahiri’s musings on language and translation. Lahiri, a reader and writer in multiple languages, focuses on the translation of Italian, with insightful references to... Read More

"Until It Shimmers" is an involving novel about finding one’s place in the world. Alec Scott’s novel "Until It Shimmers" is about a man’s search for his true self—and his sexual awakening. Ned, the sheltered scion of a well-to-do... Read More