• Nature

    Wildfires

    The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record 

    Rebecca Worby on Will Stratton’s “Points of Origin”

     
    By Rebecca Worby  March 7, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    By Jonny Diamond  March 4, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    The Natural World

    Winter is Coming: The Changing of the Seasons Through a Mastodon’s Eyes

    By Riley Black  February 24, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

    By Madeleine Watts  February 20, 2025
    The Arctic

    Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole

    By Erling Kagge  February 13, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Nature Writing

    Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

    By David Gessner  February 10, 2025
    The Hub

    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

    By James Folta  February 7, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

    By Sarah Viren  February 7, 2025
    European History

    Groaning Under the Weight of History: Inside the Natural and Political Landscape of the Carpathian Mountains

    Nick Thorpe Explores the Intersections of Geography and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe

    By Nick Thorpe  March 7, 2025
    Pets

    What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World

    By Mark Rowlands  January 28, 2025
    American West

    “We’re Not Living Right.” On the Failed Human Efforts to Conquer the Desert

    By Kyle Paoletta  January 17, 2025
    Wildfires

    The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

    By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

    Every Little Bit Helps

    By Brittany Allen  January 10, 2025
    Agriculture

    Why Did We Start Drinking Milk? On the Ancient Rise of Dairy Consumption

    By Anne Mendelson  January 9, 2025
    Climate Change

    Forest, Forest Burning Bright: On Humans’ Relationship with Trees in an Era of Climate Change

    By Lauren E. Oakes  January 6, 2025
    The Natural World

    Paradise in Progress: On Creating a Natural Refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains

    By Paula Whyman  January 6, 2025
    Gardening

    Trees of Life and Knowledge: Jamaica Kincaid on Colonialism, Gardening, and Worshipping Her Plants

    The Author of “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children” in Conversation with Sandra Guzmán

    By Sandra Guzmán  January 3, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    The Natural World

    In Search of the Perfect Piece of Wood

    By Callum Robinson  December 12, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Serviceberry

    By Drew Broussard  December 11, 2024
    The Natural World

    Oceans That Glow: On the Timeless Beauty of Bioluminescence

    Alan Lightman Considers the Power and Benefits of Natural Deep Sea Light

    By Alan Lightman  November 20, 2024
    Ecopoetics

    Poems of Power and Our Planet: Six Essential Ecopoetry Collections to Read

    By Dorsía Smith Silva  November 15, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Marcia Bjornerud on the Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  November 13, 2024
    Ethics

    Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

    By Jeff Sebo  January 29, 2025
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