Robert B. Marks’s comprehensive natural history text Deep Time in Mono Basin concerns a sensitive lake ecosystem in northeastern California. The Mono Lake Basin, at the edge of the Sierra Nevada, serves a vital ecological role as one... Read More

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

"My World Is Melting" is Line Nagell Ylvisåker’s enlightening essay collection about climate change as observed on a small Norwegian island in the fastest-warming region on the planet. Ylvisåker reports that temperatures near... 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

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