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

In Terri Lewis’s affecting historical novella "When They Came Home", a shell-shocked soldier faces marital strain. In Kansas in 1919, Edith, a farmer’s daughter, is courted by Milton, a World War I veteran. Soon, they start a family... Read More

The heavens light up in Emily Seyl and Paul Ziomek’s photographic history "Trinity", which presents the testing of the first atomic bomb in a way heretofore unknown. In 1945, the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki astonished... Read More

About home and migration in the face of displacement, Elin Anna Labba’s haunting, elegant novel "The Home of the Drowned" memorializes indigenous Sámi culture in Lapland. Three Sámi women—Iŋgá; her mother, Rávdná; and her Aunt... Read More

The road to peace and love is paved with poise and self-discovery in Juda Bennett’s coming-of-New-Age memoir "Qtopia". Bennett was expected and encouraged by his nuclear family parents to join the military upon his high school... Read More

Rod Phillips’s Cats: A History is an exhaustive and engrossing survey of the millennia-long relationship between cats and people. Humans first kept cats to protect grain stores from rodents, Phillips notes, while ancient Egyptians... Read More

An armed resistance breaks out in the mountains, and a journalist makes plans to document the stories of those fighting, in Aksil Azergui’s rousing novel "Bread of the Ravens", a literary exploration of life amid the indigenous Amazigh... 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