A hearty “bless your heart” to those who misunderstand the South, the essays of Margaret Renkl’s Graceland, at Last vivify an often maligned region. Renkl is one angle of... Read More

Taking place across continents, "Saga Boy" is the memoir of a Black Trinidadian who grew into his manhood in Canada, surrounded by whiteness and colonial legacies. Downing’s... Read More

Devon Walker-Figueroa is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of the New England Review’s Emerging Writer Award. Her work has been been published in... Read More

"Diary of a Young Naturalist" covers a transformative year in Dara McAnulty’s life, following his move to a new home, school, and wilderness haunts in Eastern Ireland.... Read More

Told through the voices of strong, albeit fractured, women across generations, "The Seed Keeper" is a novel about legacies, generational trauma, and the inescapable call of... Read More

Kazim Ali’s eloquent memoir "Northern Light" reports on the complicated history of a Canadian landscape and its Pimicikamak residents, who endure human-made challenges every... Read More

Interesting to note exactly who picks up the poetry pen. What life experience, what event, led to the decision? And did the poet even have a choice, or was poetry the last, best... Read More

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s shimmering essay collection about fantastic creatures and plants, "World of Wonders", is shot through with memories of her peripatetic life and... Read More

In his fourth book of poetry, "To Make Room for the Sea", Adam Clay notes, “The line between the public and personal? It depends on the world.” His poems play with the... Read More

As the poet takes her own sweet hold of space-time, the Higgs field, electron clouds, fusion, and dark matter, she tethers the universe’s greatest mysteries to matters of the... Read More

The short, potent essays of Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss are objects as worthy of marvel and study as the birds and other creatures... Read More

Achingly sad and incredibly beautiful, Karen Babine’s "All the Wild Hungers" is a welcoming invitation to dinner, family, and laughter, evoking a warm, full kitchen and good... Read More