Barbara Presnell’s grace-filled memoir reflects on the loss of her father and a sibling trip to Europe to re-create his World War II travels. Presnell’s father, Bill, died after surgery when she was fourteen years old. Her mother,... Read More

In Torben Kuhlmann’s lovely illustrated novel "Earhart", a field mouse builds an airplane to fly around the world, mirroring the exploits of the famous aviatrix. A mouse inventor who manufactures machines in her underground workshop... Read More

Ed Valfre’s artful collection "Tales from Dreamland" signposts the “ordinary magic of the everyday” via whimsical flash fiction and eye-catching photographs. The paragraph-length stories range from poetry to fables. In... Read More

In the intrepid, intimate essays of "Edge of the World", edited by Alden Jones, travel engenders realizations about self, society, and the value of queer community. Sixteen authors of diverse sexual orientations and genders contrast here... Read More

In his rollicking essay collection "Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds", Charles Hood reckons with the ocean’s simultaneous allure and risk through stories of seabird-watching and of his father’s wartime service in the Pacific Theater.... Read More

In Katie Goh’s nimble hybrid memoir "Foreign Fruit", the unfolding history of the orange is paralleled with family migrations and anti-Asian racism. The inciting incident dates to the COVID-19 lockdowns: “The morning after a white... Read More

In his fascinating travelogue "The Wild Dark", Craig Childs goes on a quest to reclaim dark nights. Childs remembers the mixture of awe and fear he felt under a Colorado night sky when he was five years old. Since then, he’s taken... Read More

Daniel Tammet’s "Nine Minds" is a biographical mosaic of neurodivergence built of stories of individuals whose struggles and achievements defy the clichés surrounding autism. The book presents autism not as a “disorder” but as a... Read More