Susan Cormier’s "Dead Bees Still Sting" is a poignant, often surprising collection of nature essays about rural life and beekeeping. These essays concern five seasons on a small farm on the edge of suburban Vancouver. Several focus on... Read More

The fascinating, wide-ranging autobiographical essays in writer Jay Neugeboren’s "Dickens in Brooklyn" include thoughtful perspectives on civil rights, family, literature, and mental illness. Neugeboren was raised by a strong but... Read More

"Credentialed Dietetics Practitioners with Disabilities Get the Job Done" is an insightful healthcare guide to broadening professional understandings of what competence looks like. Edited by Suzanne Domel Baxter and Cheryl Iny Harris,... Read More

In Elizabeth Zaleski’s "The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure", quirky anecdotes proffer insights on family, relationships, and the self. Across five sections, the collection tackles “the trouble with” a variety... Read More

Queer Black author and professor Tisa Bryant’s bold, inventive autobiographical essay collection is about memory, grief, home, and belonging. The hybrid essays combine poetry, stream-of-consciousness prose, scraps of dialogue, lists of... Read More

Rebecca Solnit’s clearsighted, inspiring essay collection celebrates the achievements of the progressive movement and poses a hopeful vision of the future. This book celebrates an “epic transformation” still underway, driven by the... Read More

The brave, probing essays in Anna Badkhen’s "To See Beyond" address global issues including climate change, economic inequality, immigration, colonization, and genocide. The twenty-three essays in this collection cover a vast physical... Read More

Ron Dungan’s droll, engaging essay collection "The Worst Fishing Dog Ever" engages in quiet contemplation of fly-fishing in the Arizona backcountry. About fly-fishing excursions to remote streams, canyons, and lakes as remedies for... Read More