Drawing on personal experiences and cultural analysis, Jaswinder Bolina’s essay collection "Of Color" is an important examination of race in the US. The son of Sikh Punjabi immigrants by way of London, Bolina writes about navigating a... Read More
“At a certain point,” writes Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri, “the nightmare becomes home.” The entries of Petri’s collection are satirical dances through the most baffling moments of the Trump presidency, wherein... Read More
"Feasting Wild" is a fascinating record of ecological travesties committed in the name of pleasing humans’ insatiable appetites. There’s an otherworldly sensibility to Gina Rae La Cerva’s accounts of the lands, airs, and seas as... Read More
Specificity has a way of creating potency, and in Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s essay collection "A Fish Growing Lungs", the power of a well-chosen detail is apparent. Intertwining anecdotes and diaristic, poetic reflections are used to... Read More
Molly McCully Brown’s collection of essays, Places I’ve Taken My Body, describes what it’s like to live in a body that is often classified as disabled. Brown relates what it was like growing up with cerebral palsy and shares the... Read More
Julian Hoffman’s "Irreplaceable" chronicles singular landscapes and the inspiring people who fight to protect them. It’s an eloquent, sustained prose poem about the beauty and historical, cultural, and ecological attributes of... Read More
The essays of "From Environmental Loss to Resistance" are an example of engaged scholarship. They focus on “the plurality of ways to be active agents of change” in North America and were written by activists and academics working on... Read More
When fear comes to town and our leaders urge us to hole up and prepare for the worst, you can expect to experience periods of melancholy and disillusionment. Not for nothing are these called the times that try our souls. Even so, let’s... Read More