Jill Hunting’s "For Want of Wings" is the enrapturing, wide-ranging, and thoughtful account of her great-grandfather’s discovery of a rare dinosaur fossil in 1872. Tom Russell was on a Yale student expedition to Kansas when he... Read More

Emilia A. Leese and Eva J. Charalambides’s Think Like a Vegan is a thought-provoking introduction to the ethics of veganism whose message is straightforward: veganism should be the norm. Charalambides and Leese tackle the philosophical... Read More

In 1921, then-forest ranger Aldo Leopold proposed that the remote lands around New Mexico’s Gila River be protected against roads, structures, and resource extraction. They were thus designated as the US’s first wilderness area.... Read More

For the four years of its existence and in the months following it, Donald Trump’s presidential administration provided myriad examples of breaking American law and general norms of government. As Allan Lichtman demonstrates in his... Read More

In "The Isolation Artist", Bob Keyes explores the tumultuous life and death of an influential artist. Robert Indiana is best remembered for his rendering of the word “LOVE” in bold type, the first two letters atop the last two, the... Read More

“Health is a capacious category, inextricable from the entire social world,” says Anne Pollock in "Sickening", about how societies’ intricacies and ills are reflected back in the ways health is conceptualized, stratified, and... Read More

Liv Arnesen’s inspiring memoir "Skiing into the Bright Open" is about her expedition as the first woman to ski solo to the South Pole. With clarity and an understated tone, Arnesen recounts her evolution from being an avid reader and a... Read More

The poems and prose pieces of "Blossom as the Cliffrose" celebrate the beauty and nature of the Mormon faith. The cliffrose is a beautiful but perhaps unlikely plant that blooms in the rugged Western deserts, where Mormons were forced to... Read More