Everyday womanhood is celebrated in the travel essay collection "There She Goes". These seventeen essays by women of all ages and backgrounds focus on the quotidian particularities of existing as a woman. One entry, about a visit to... Read More

Julie Marie Wade’s shrewd and winsome memoir Other People’s Mothers is about the gendered conventions of her 1980s and 1990s Seattle girlhood. Nine chapters, covering Wade’s life from the ages of six to thirteen, center... Read More

The essays from leading tree scientists collected in "In the Circle of Ancient Trees" read like fervent love letters to ten of the most ancient and important tree species on the planet. Dendrochronology, or the study of tree rings to... Read More

The nine intricate essays in Margot Singer’s collection "Secret Agent Man" braid investigations of womanhood, Jewishness, and family memory. The sly title piece contrasts spy movie clichés with the reality of Singer’s Czech-born... Read More

"Hello? Who Is This? Margaret?" is a funny and heartfelt essay collection that models leaping into the unknown and growing into oneself in the process. Dani Alpert’s descriptive memoir-in-essays "Hello? Who Is This? Margaret?" muses... Read More

Oscillating between piquing ideas and warm memories with abandon, "Life Sucks" is a charming essay collection. PS Conway’s introspective, gracious essay collection "Life Sucks" concentrates on childhood memories and popular culture.... Read More

Unflinching condemnations of past wrongdoings combine with critiques of contemporary missteps by those in power in the assertive political science critique "Surviving Canadian Chaos". Geneviève Gagné and Richard Girard’s bilingual... Read More

The urgent, prescient essays in Rebecca Solnit’s "No Straight Road Takes You There" name social inequities and ecological pains while insisting upon hope. Writing after the 2020 election, at a time when many on the left implored... Read More