• Nature

    Self-Care

    The World is Wrecking Our Hearing and We’re Letting It

    By Mack Hagood  March 19, 2019
    Essay

    How Barry Lopez Got Me Through a Backcountry Winter

    By Bryce Andrews  March 18, 2019
    Essay

    Astonishment in Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams

    By Anna Badkhen  March 14, 2019
    Excerpts

    Why is the Wilderness Experience Like a Dream?

    By Bruce Berger  March 12, 2019
    Excerpts

    What Do We Really Know About Animals’ Emotions?

    By Frans de Waal  March 12, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Vulnerability of Home on an Afflicted Planet, From California to Calcutta

    By Torsa Ghosal  March 6, 2019
    Excerpts

    Thomas McGuane: The Misadventures of an Angler

    By Thomas McGuane  March 4, 2019
    Excerpts

    Tigers Don’t Eat Humans, So Why Did This One Kill Over 400 People?

    By Dane Huckelbridge  February 20, 2019
    Excerpts

    How Do You Save an Endangered Species in a Warzone?

    By Alex Dehgan  January 18, 2019
    Feature

    The Day the Llamas Came to the Bookstore

    By James Tate Hill  December 17, 2018
    Essay

    Brandon Hobson on Recovering Cherokee Myths from His Grandfather’s Notebook

    By Brandon Hobson  December 11, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Grandfather of New Nature Writing Was a Bird-Loving Poet

    By Stephen Moss  December 6, 2018
    Excerpts

    Windows to the World: At WS Merwin’s Old French Farmhouse

    By Michael Wiegers  November 28, 2018
    Essay

    Does Art Originate From the Same Necessity That Gives Rise to Beehives?

    By Inger Christensen  November 27, 2018
    Feature

    When Amy Hempel’s Dog Was Briefly Reincarnated as a Bear

    By Amy Hempel  November 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    Dear Edward Abbey: Things Aren’t Looking Great for the Wild

    By Amy Irvine  October 10, 2018
    Excerpts

    Meet the Beloved Pet Ravens of Charles Dickens

    By Christopher Skaife  October 2, 2018
    Essay

    On Suicidal Sharks and Self-Harm

    By Nicole Im  October 1, 2018
    Excerpts

    Meet the Heroic Park Rangers Battling Poaching in Kenya

    By Rachel Love Nuwer  September 28, 2018
    News and Culture

    It’s Actually Pretty Weird That We Keep Animals As Pets

    By Amy Lilwall  September 20, 2018
    Essay

    After the Storm: On the Artist’s Life in Puerto Rico, Post-Maria

    By Jennifer Acker  September 13, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Would You Do Suddenly Adrift in a Lifeboat in the North Atlantic?

    By Brian Murphy  September 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    We Know Much Less About Evolution Than We Thought

    By David Quammen  August 29, 2018
    Excerpts

    We Should All Probably Be Eating Seaweed

    By Susan Hand Shetterly  August 17, 2018
    Excerpts

    Please, Consider the Beaver

    By Ben Goldfarb  August 1, 2018
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