An exploration of the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, and the larger Arctic region, revealing the fragile and intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape. Kantner’s lifetime on the tundra underpins his compelling account of the politics of caribou, race relations, urban vs. rural demands, subsistence vs. sport hunting, and cultural priorities vs. resource extraction. Throughout the book, Kantner’s stunning full-color photographs enhance his depiction of community, habitat, and the timeless passage of caribou.

At the height of her career, Sarah Ruhl had just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovered the left side of her face completely paralyzed. In a series of piercing, witty, and lucid meditations, Ruhl chronicles her journey as a patient, wife, mother, and artist. She explores the struggle of a body yearning to match its inner landscape, postpartum depression, marriage, being a playwright and working mom to three tiny children, and the desire for a resilient spiritual life in the face of illness.

Are you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain there’s a version of our world that doesn’t break down into tiny categories of alliance, but brings everybody together into one clattering chorus of glorious pandemonium? Amy Leach invites you into a book of praise songs, poetry, critique, soul-lifting philosophy, and whimsical but scientific trips into nature. It is equal parts joy and call to reason—where reason means taking care of the earth and everything in it.

In Cranial Fracking, Frazier has gathered his insights on the most urgent issues of today. From climate change (what did Al Gore say at his colloquium on the rising temperatures in Hell?) to the state of culture (what do you do when you’re afflicted with Loss of Funding?) to Texas (what should we do with Texas?), he has all the answers. Or, at the very least, a lot of questions.

A powerful dynamo of a story that weaves the author's experiences with an appreciation for seven great literary touchstones: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, James Merrill, Mark Strand, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In speaking to the beauty these poets' works inspire in him, Reece finds beauty in his own life's journey, from coming of age as a gay teenager in the 1980s to his life's work as an Episcopal priest. 

David Talbot and Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of the political landscape of the 1960s and 70s, one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century, brought to life through seven defining radical moments that offer vibrant parallels and lessons for today.

There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns. In this wide-ranging exploration of our inner lives and public selves, Radtke digs into the ways we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains. 

Blending memoir, history, sociology, and politics, Better to Have Gone probes an unsolved family mystery and portrays in vivid detail the daily life and tumultuous history of Auroville, a utopian community striving to create a better world.

A collection of essays and lectures on Alice McDermott’s “work of a lifetime” as a bestselling novelist and professor of writing. From technical advice to setting the bar, from the demands of readers, to the foibles of public life, McDermott muses delightfully about the art and the craft of literary creation.

When his two sisters died suddenly within weeks of each other, Hugh Raffles reached for rocks, stones, and other solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored. Drawing on history, anthropology, and geology, this moving meditation is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber from Svalbard, and the Greenlandic meteorites that arrived in an exuberant New York City in 1897 accompanied by six Inughuit travelers.