Book Review
Sexus Botanicus
by Kristen Rabe
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...
Book Review
Inside Science
by Kristen Rabe
Persuasive and thought-provoking, Benjamin Lewin’s "Inside Science" examines how big data is changing biological research. Contemporary scientific methods, Lewin says, are driven by large research teams, aggregated results across...
Book Review
Secret Worlds
by Kristen Rabe
Martin Stevens’s "Secret Worlds" is a brilliant book on animal perception—the astonishing sensory adaptations that birds, insects, and other creatures evolved for their survival. Humans share five senses with animals; animals have...
Book Review
Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
by Kristen Rabe
"Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms" is a delightful exploration of an often-overlooked aspect of the natural world: the fungi that are essential to the health of the planet. Alison Pouliot contends that fungi are often misunderstood or...
Book Review
More Voices from the Radium Age
by Kristen Rabe
Featuring nine superb short stories, "More Voices from the Radium Age" is a diverse, captivating collection of science fiction. Focusing on works written between 1900 and 1935, it reissues overlooked stories that preceded the “golden...
Book Review
Restoring Eden
by Kristen Rabe
Elizabeth D. Hilborn’s "Restoring Eden" covers the devastation caused by agricultural pesticides alongside an impassioned plea for ecological reform. Two decades ago, Hilborn and her husband moved to a North Carolina fruit farm,...
Book Review
God Is Red
by Kristen Rabe
A classic, incisive study of Native American religion and culture, Vine Deloria Jr.’s "God Is Red" speaks with remarkable relevance and poignancy. First released in 1973, this work considers the place of Native American religious...
Book Review
Call up the Waters
by Kristen Rabe
In the breathtaking and riveting stories of Amber Caron’s Call Up the Waters, people living close to nature exhibit stubborn resilience and aching sadness. The ten stories in this stunning collection include startling details and...