The Great Untold / Our story has never been told before: the pages before us all are blank. Thrill in it: it is our privilege, our duty, our wild and gargantuan task to decide where we go next. The magnificent terror of this kept washing... Read More

If there is any doubt about God having a sense of humor, the old joke goes, you need only look at his decision to combine the human sex organs with the sewage disposal system. Questionable design, to be sure. Likewise, America’s city... Read More

Sweet in Tooth and Claw / Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World / Kristin Ohlson / Patagonia / Hardcover $27.95 (384pp) / 978-1-952338-09-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Descriptions of nature as... Read More

Would be nice to go a week without hearing the word “extinction” mentioned alongside some other hapless animal/insect/plant facing existential doom. Alas, prepare yourself to hear it even more: the rate of species loss is “tens to... Read More

Kibogo / Scholastique MukasongaMark Polizzotti, translator / Archipelago Books / Softcover $16.00 (160pp) / 978-1-953861-36-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Two outcasts from a troubled Rwandan village try to save their... Read More

If you spend your waking hours watching video of crocodiles attacking wildebeest and falcons downing doves in midair, you’d be forgiven for believing that relations between all species is merciless, that each form of life on earth is... Read More

Formidable / American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 / Elisabeth Griffith / Pegasus Books / Hardcover $35.00 (496pp) / 978-1-63936-189-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Formidable, Elisabeth Griffith... Read More

Who doesn’t want to fly? Okay, you, sir, with a fear of heights, we get it. But the rest of us would happily give up our opposable thumbs to soar with the birds. Yes, California Condor, you lucky buzzard, we’re seriously jealous. In... Read More