Steven Moore’s nuanced, hypnotic essays about growing up in the Midwest balance nostalgia with critique, sharing childhood memories that were formative to his identity. An Iowan now based in Oregon, Moore has insider knowledge and an... 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

In his pensive memoir, Matthew Vollmer investigates the blinking lights that appeared in the woods soon after his mother’s death. In 2019, Vollmer’s mother died of complications of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Months later, his... Read More

In her memoir God’s Ex-Girlfriend, Gloria Beth Amodeo is candid about how she was drawn into evangelical Christianity—and about how she came to see it as a “common American cult” involving unhealthy relationship dynamics and... Read More

In the sixteen sumptuous historical stories of Leah Angstman’s "Shoot the Horses First", outsiders and pioneers face disabilities and prejudice with poise. An orphan shipped from Brooklyn to Illinois hopes to meet the right adoptive... Read More

The “Cold Rush” is coming, professor Matthew Birkhold heralds, and its quarry is icebergs and the freshwater supplies they could ensure. "Chasing Icebergs", with its affable blend of history and predictions, probes the ins and outs... Read More

“Mass extinction and social collapse” are “a hard set of lemons to be making lemonade out of,” environmental activist Andrew Boyd admits. "I Want a Better Catastrophe" is his inventive, no-nonsense manual of constructive and... Read More

The temperate rain forest of the North Pacific coast is so valuable an ecosystem that it has been dubbed “the Amazon of the North.” It holds the world’s tallest trees—“carbon-capturing machines.” In "Canopy of Titans", Paul... Read More