Feminist lawyer Priya-Alika Elias’s excellent essay collection "Besharam" explores modern womanhood in two nations. Elias grew up in India, came to the US for college and law school, and returned to India. Her strong, engaging voice... Read More

Structured around a life-changing trip to Guatemala, Jennifer De Leon’s "White Space" is a lively collection of personal essays about becoming a writer and growing up the child of immigrants. When she was a teenager, De Leon’s father... Read More

A collection of essays tackling addiction, sexual violence, mental illness, and the colonization of witchcraft, "White Magic" is a delight and a challenge. Elissa Washuta is a refreshing narrator, her prose poetic and sparse. Describing... Read More

"Accidental Gardens" is a rich essay collection that imparts the inherent value of writing poems and essays, which can be both impactful and fun. Inspired by the Japanese writing form haibun, the forty-two essays in Rob Carney’s... Read More

Beth Kephart’s multifaceted memoir "Wife | Daughter | Self" is about the relationships that shaped who she is and how she sees herself. In these exploratory essays, Kephart writes about her marriage, her husband, her aging father, her... Read More

"The First Year" collects the fertile, knowledgeable, and imaginative observations and fiction exercises of a retiree who found and embraced his creativity. D. Burton Smith’s charming, semi autobiographical book, "The First Year",... Read More

In the striking essays of Execute the Office, Colin Rafferty reconciles the office of the presidency with the men who’ve held it. Framed by a trip to the National Museum of American History, the entries meander through an exhibit... Read More

If you haven’t read Teen Vogue lately, you might be surprised to learn that pieces about climate change are among its fashion and pop culture pages. Editor Lucy Diavolo collects thirty-one of these impassioned articles and interviews... Read More