Elegiac in tone, Jessica Kirkness’s "The House with All the Lights On" is a touching family memoir in which language and technology enable connections with deaf grandparents. Kirkness grew up next door to her grandparents, immigrants... Read More

Visual anthropologist and filmmaker Sarah Thomas’s eloquent memoir-in-essays "The Raven’s Nest" covers her time in Iceland, where her views about people’s relationships to land and to each other sharpened. The book draws contrasts... Read More

In a compelling, conversational style that brings together two unlikely subjects, David Ladensohn’s book explores fly fishing alongside the life and legacy of Leonardo da Vinci. The book follows da Vinci’s life with admiration,... Read More

Using humor as an educational tool, Duncan Watson’s charming memoir Everyone’s Trash reveals recycling secrets and stories about detritus. After earning a master’s degree in resource management in the early 1990s, Watson started a... Read More

This stunning monograph highlights “matriarch of Indigenous fashion” Dorothy Grant’s work, which blends traditional Pacific Northwest Indigenous designs and shapes with haute couture. The book accompanies a retrospective exhibition... Read More

The devastation wrought upon US farming communities is tracked in Sonja Trom Eayrs’s courageous book "Dodge County, Inc.", in which the family farm that Eayrs grew up on becomes a microcosmic example of the ills afflicting thousands of... Read More

With chapters titled in the style of a radio weather report, which serves as an inspired metaphor for mourning, Tim Bird’s graphic memoir "Adrift on a Painted Sea" is a poignant tribute to his mother, a talented artist. Sue Bird once... Read More

In Zoe Whittall’s prose poetry memoir "No Credit River", heartbreak seeps through the cracks of everyday experiences. Covering a period of close to ten years, this hybrid memoir details the time prior to, during, and after a... Read More