A journalist heads to an offshore oil rig and stumbles onto a sinister story in Babak Lakghomi’s political novel "South". After failing to publish an investigative piece on ornithologists, B writes a book about his missing father and... Read More

Kylie Flanagan’s ecological book "Climate Resilience" assembles diverse viewpoints on solving the climate crisis and on making communities more sustainable. Drawing on interviews with thirty-nine climate justice leaders and centering... Read More

In Bijal Vachharajani’s novel "Savi and the Memory Keeper", a girl navigates grief and healing via her connection with a sentient tree. After her father’s unexpected death, Savi moves with her mother and sister to Shajarpur.... Read More

Erik Reece’s memoir "Clear Creek" covers his bucolic second life in the countryside, laying forth a vision of living in and alongside nature. Reece removed himself to the woods in the style of Henry David Thoreau in Walden—while also... Read More

A beekeeper’s reclusive, grieving daughter and a small business owner in search of healing meet over the impending fate of an apiary in Amanda Cox’s delicate Christian novel "He Should Have Told the Bees", about reconciling past... Read More

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta’s powerful novel "Ark" serves as a reminder that “home is where your animals are.” Arden’s world is on the verge of falling apart. Her family is downsizing to a tiny home they call “the ark”; her best... Read More

A young man joins a ghost in a high-stakes car race in the graphic novel "Hex Americana". Ken lives in a world inhabited by gnomes, ghosts, a cyclops, and a two-headed race announcer. He identifies as Yokai American, derived from the... Read More

Jerome Charyn’s rollicking novel Ravage & Son tours the seedy underbelly of turn-of-the-century New York City. Between 1883 and 1913, the city’s Jewish quarter witnesses the reign and fall of Lionel Ravage, a hardware and... Read More