• Nature

    Nature Writing

    Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

    Edward Moreta Jr. on White Western Nature Writing, JID's 29 (Freestyle), and Longing for Black Representation in Wild Settings

     
    By Edward Moreta Jr.  December 4, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Kerri ní Dochartaigh on How Motherhood Taught Her About Mammalhood

    By Emergence Magazine  November 20, 2023
    Ireland

    A Cartogropher’s Glorious Paean to the Landscape of Connemara

    By Tim Robinson  November 17, 2023
    The Natural World

    The Ability to Transform: On Wolves Becoming People, and People Becoming Wolves

    By Sonja Swift  November 17, 2023
    Alligators

    Beyond the Easy Mythology of “Florida Man” in the Heart of the Everglades

    By Rebecca Renner  November 14, 2023
    Food

    A Brief History of Onions in America

    By Mark Kurlansky  November 9, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Geology

    Magical and Essential: On the Mineral and Metallic Bases of Our World

    By Ed Conway  November 8, 2023
    Animals

    What the Marabou Stork Taught Me About Writing in an Era of Mass Extinction and Waste

    By Ashia Ajani  November 6, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Hear a New Short Story from Laia Jufresa

    By Emergence Magazine  November 6, 2023
    2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

    “The Status Quo is Not an Option…” John Vaillant on Our Climate Future

    Alex Clark on the 2023 Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

    By Alex Clark  November 22, 2023
    The Sea

    The Shape of Water: How the Movement of Oceans Impacts Human Activity

    By Helen Czerski  October 30, 2023
    The History of Literature

    America’s First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

    By History of Literature  October 30, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Anna Badkhen on Imprints of the Past

    By Emergence Magazine  October 30, 2023
    Mushrooms

    Instead of Writing, Margaret Renkl Forages for Fungi

    “Always I find more answers in a forest than I find in my own hot attic of a mind.”

    By Margaret Renkl  October 24, 2023
    Aliens?

    UFO or UF-No: What Would Take for Aliens to Visit Our Solar System?

    By Adam Frank  October 24, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Erin Sharkey on the Black Experience of Nature

    By History of Literature  October 23, 2023
    Cat Language

    You Had Me At Meow: On the Hidden Language of Cats

    By Sarah Brown  October 18, 2023
    America

    How the Iron Horse Spelled Doom for the American Buffalo

    Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns on General Custer, Buffalo Bill and Grand Duke Alexis

    By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns  October 16, 2023
    Climate Change

    The Bear Whisperer Lays Out the Profound Impact of Wildfires on Southern California’s Black Bear Population

    By Steve Searles and Chris Erskine  October 13, 2023
    Nobel Laureates

    Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

    By Katalin Karikó  October 12, 2023
    Birds

    The World’s Most Beautiful Bird Lives in Yellowstone National Park

    By Douglas W. Smith, Lauren E. Walker, Katharine E. Duffy and David Haines   October 12, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    A Short Story from Masatsugu Ono and Emergence Magazine

    This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

    By Emergence Magazine  October 10, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Natalie Rose Richardson on Birdwatching and Attention

    By Emergence Magazine  October 2, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Nathan Hill on the Biggest Surprise of His Literary Career

    By The Literary Life  September 29, 2023
    Animals

    The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

    By Justin C Key  October 31, 2023
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