Emphasizing the importance of quiet observations of the natural world, Kathryn Gillespie’s probing, meditative nature book "The Sound of Feathers" is about human encounters with animals. The thoughtful essays address the ethics of... Read More

Manchán Magan’s profound yet playful book "Thirty-Two Words for Field" is part memoir, part history, and part ecology. Drawing on primary research, scholarly texts, and his family’s personal history, Magan documents the ongoing... Read More

Cassondra Windwalker’s contemplative novel begins with the sudden, challenging loss of a spouse. When Hayden loses his wife, Shelly, to a sudden stroke, he struggles to manage his landscaping business and take care of himself. The... Read More

Dani Netherclift’s sublime memoir commemorates her father’s and brother’s accidental deaths and ponders corporeality and impermanence. One scorching afternoon in 1993, Netherclift’s father and brother drowned while swimming in an... Read More

Fausta Cialente’s multifaceted historical novel "A Very Cold Winter" explores the individual and collective dynamics of an extended family as they adjust to life in postwar Italy. Though the war ended, Milan is still shadowed by... Read More

In Emanuela Anechoum’s nuanced novel "Tangerinn", a Londoner returns to her Calabrian hometown after her father’s death, seeking closure and emotional clarity. Mina grew up in a “provincial mafia-run” town near the sea. Her... Read More

In Rinny Gremaud’s fascinating novella "Generator", a woman investigates nuclear energy and her parentage. “I was born in 1977 at a nuclear power plant in the south of South Korea,” the unnamed narrator opens. She and her mother... Read More

A baker solves murders during a highland train tour in Rebecca Connolly’s charming cozy mystery novel "Mayhem on the Marzipan Express". Alan is the celebrity judge of a baking show. He promotes himself by hosting a trip for paying fans... Read More