Joanne Anton’s "Sexus Botanicus" is an often playful, beautiful science book loaded with fascinating, substantive information about plants’ reproductive lives. Featuring clear, succinct prose and gorgeous color sketches, the book... Read More

The essays of "Black Hair in a White World" concern the struggles of Black women who sport natural hair in a colonized world. A commodity, a means of discrimination, a point of economic exploitation: Black women’s hair developed in... Read More

The self-help book "They Are Going to Kill Us All" contains advice for improving one’s health through natural measures. Kevin Kazakevich’s book "They Are Going to Kill Us All" proposes ways to enhance health through natural means.... Read More

Thorough and contextual, "The True Story of the Ambiguous Idea of Capital" reevaluates Adam Smith’s contributions to the field of economics with verve. Philosophical and exploratory, Mario Fabbri’s "The True Story of the Ambiguous... Read More

In nuanced, swirling prose, Emerson Whitney’s gutsy memoir "Daddy Boy" takes a complex route through kink, trans identity, and storm chasing to locate their past, present, and future selves. Switching between Whitney’s... Read More

A bank robbery gone wrong ends in death in "24 Hours with Gaspar", Sabda Armandio’s engaging, happenstance-led thriller. Gaspar is frivolous and aloof, convinced that he’s gifted with the ability to end up in the right place at the... Read More

Art professor A. Laurie Palmer’s musing interdisciplinary work "The Lichen Museum" draws life lessons from often-overlooked organisms. Lichens, Palmer notes, have served as food, drink, dye, and decoration for millennia, though their... Read More

Determined to be a “faithful witness” to COVID-19, sociology professor Amy Kaler documented her shifting emotions, disrupted thinking, and attraction to nature. Spanning the year starting with mid-March of 2020, her concise,... Read More