"Stories of a Forest Ranger" is an inspirational memoir about life in the US Forest Service. In Pete Griffin’s memoir "Stories of a Forest Ranger", “friendly” wolves, mating eagles, beaver dams, fires, and promotions occasion... Read More

"Cabin 135" is Katie Eberhart’s contemplative account of several decades in Alaska, through which she both reflects on the past and on environmental changes that could impact the future. Eberhart moved to Alaska with her husband in the... Read More

Garments as holy relics, crime scene evidence, and archives that signal absent bodies: in Laura Levitt’s eloquent, moving, meditative book "The Objects That Remain", things stand in for human witnesses to trauma. Years after being... Read More

Julia Zarankin’s memoir is a moving, and often hilarious, account of how she—a type A, perfectionistic, and nature-avoidant novice—became a bona fide “bird nerd,” transforming her life in the process. Zarankin’s story begins... Read More

Steven Heighton volunteered at a refugee camp, and his memoir "Reaching Mithymna" is an eyewitness account of the Syrian refugee crisis. In 2015, the fifth year of the Syrian civil war, Heighton volunteered as an aid worker. Within hours... Read More

In her lyric memoir "Lyrebird", Meredith Clark moves between poetry, metanarratives, and vignettes. Motivated by loss, she tries to accrue images and memories of a child yet unborn—perhaps to lure it into being, or to process her loss.... Read More

“If it were followed by spring or summer, I would love autumn unreservedly,” writes Horatio Clare. Instead, autumn, for all its glory, warns the Welsh-born writer that winter will soon engulf Britain and Wales in gales, sleet, and... Read More

Characterized by passionate flourishes and a commitment to seeing immigrants treated fairly, "The Horseshoe Virus" is a knowledgeable political text that exposes the mechanizations of anti-immigrant operatives. The personal is... Read More