In the luminous essays of Priyanka Kumar’s "Conversations with Birds", birds are a portal to reclaiming childhood connections with nature and the lush, wild landscape of northern India’s remote mountains. Torn from her roots by a... Read More

"Lady Garland Tames Her Dragons and Brings Peace to the Kingdom" is a memoir about the substantial challenges that got in the way of a woman’s dreams. Professor Jane Garland’s unconventional memoir peels back layers of privilege to... Read More

Kiki Petrosino collects poetic, honest, philosophical vignettes in "Bright", an investigation into the etymology of the term for lightness as it pertains to the effects of colorism and the unintended consequences of inhabiting a body... Read More

Dave Dempsey spent more than three decades working in a range of environmental-policy roles in Michigan, and those experiences inform his new essay collection "Half Wild". The stories in the book all discuss the intersection of human... Read More

A native of New Orleans with a PhD in English, C. W. Cannon brings his perspective to the city, the South, and race in his essay collection "I Want Magic". With eloquence and keen analyses, Cannon defends New Orleans as complex and... Read More

Robert Cohen’s essays are insightful, entertaining explorations of writers and writing. Probing literature with an expansive view of the craft, the book covers major figures, including John Cheever and Henry James, as well as less... Read More

Edited by Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido, "Nonwhite and Woman" is an intimate, honest collection of microessays by women of color. These 131 essays distill the life experiences of one hundred women authors and poets. They spotlight the... Read More

Roy Dennis is a UK wildlife conservation pioneer; in the past six decades, he has been particularly active in reintroducing birds of prey, including ospreys and white-tailed eagles. In the essays of "Mistletoe Winter", his excitement... Read More