The essays of Issac J. Bailey’s Why Didn’t We Riot? are incisive as they confront the realities of systemic racism in America and in the age of Donald Trump. Bailey begins his book by discussing blind spots—in particular, those of... Read More

Michele Weldon’s diverting essays concern womanhood and are written from the vantage of her sixties. From childhood forward, Weldon discusses her career, friendships, and feelings of invisibility. A cancer survivor, she threads regrets... Read More

“Writing about experiences afield is a way of reliving them,” environmental reporter Ted Williams writes in "Earth Almanac", which synthesizes half a century of his nature observations into essays that mark the changing of the... Read More

Naturalist Jill Sisson Quinn’s essay collection "Sign Here If You Exist" concerns connection and change in relation to both the self and the world at large. As an environmental educator in Wisconsin, Quinn taught that everything is... Read More

"Talking to a Portrait" is a rare glimpse into the world of fine art galleries and museums that contains the delights, blunders, research, conversations, and inspiration of curating an exhibition. This memoir from one of Canada’s... Read More

Jamie Goode’s full-bodied "The Goode Guide to Wine" tastes its way through the industry for consumers and the trade. Original, sensory-fused titles, including “Mouthfeel Matters,” frame the book’s short and easy-reading chapters.... Read More

andrea bennett’s essays concern growing up, pregnancy, parenting, and mental health—topics that are addressed from a nonbinary perspective. Growing up in small town Canada as a queer, nonbinary individual was a complicated and... Read More

Katherine Snow Smith muses on the vicissitudes of life in her essay collection "Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker". Smith’s twenty-two essays follow a loose chronology. The daughter of a prominent Southern journalist, Smith also... Read More