In Austyn Wohlers’s emotive novel "Hothouse Bloom", a woman steps away from human interactions to draw closer to nature, seeking healing. Anna, a painter, inherits her grandfather’s orchard. Although it is a foreign space to her, she... Read More

In Jennifer Bannan’s lush short story collection "Tamiami Trail", cypresses and Spanish moss evoke the Everglades. While centered on Miami, Monroe Station and the Tamiami Trail function as a mythical loci from which spores of... Read More

“When it comes to fungi, art and science often overlap,” Maya Jewell Zeller writes, and that is indeed true of her beautiful, beguiling book "The Wonder of Mushrooms". Fungi are curious: More closely related to animals than plants,... Read More

A woman and her sisters navigate wartime life with a serial killer on the loose in the gripping graphic novel "The Brownout Murders". In Melbourne, Australia, the threat of Japanese invasion looms and a brownout is ordered to dim the... Read More

Edited by Suzanne Barbezat, Frida Kahlo’s Love Letters is a collection of the artist’s correspondence illuminated by Kahlo’s unique spirit. Barbezat was inspired to compile a selection of Kahlo’s correspondence while researching... Read More

A gorgeous exercise in open theology, Martha Park’s essay collection "World Without End" ponders climate change, social inequities, family, and religion. Though it has roots in her Christian upbringing, Park’s book treats faith less... Read More