• Nature

    Personal Essay

    Riding Out Hurricane Irma with a 900-Page Book

    By Lorraine Berry  September 26, 2017
    Excerpts

    Why Send Whale Song Into Space?

    By Margret Grebowicz  September 15, 2017
    Feature

    The Divinity of Dog Writing

    By Nathan Goldman  September 12, 2017
    Excerpts

    So, Can We Actually Predict Earthquakes?

    By Kathryn Miles  August 31, 2017
    Excerpts

    An Ode to the Sun by Karl Ove Knausgaard

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  August 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    Revisiting the Fieldnotes from Our Time with the Saamaka

    By Richard Price and Sally Price  August 4, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Problem With Writing About Florida

    By Kristen Arnett  June 28, 2017
    Essay

    It Costs $55 to Learn How to Bend a Spoon with Your Mind

    By Daryl Gregory  June 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When the Hometown You Wrote About Is Changed Forever By Disaster

    By Scott Gould  May 30, 2017
    Excerpts

    How to Make Peace with the Void Through Birdwatching

    By Kyo Maclear  May 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Mozart Changed My Mind About America’s Most Hated Bird

    By Lyanda Lynn Haupt  May 5, 2017
    Essay

    Can Trees Save the World After We’re Gone?

    By Matthew Battles  March 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    Contemplating Human Extinction, Deep in the Badlands

    By Edward McPherson  February 22, 2017
    Criticism

    Against Nature Writing

    By Blair Braverman  December 22, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Wood for the Trees: One Man’s Long View of Nature

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 19, 2016
    Essay

    In Search of the Real Woman Who Lived on the Island of the Blue Dolphins

    By Veronica Hackethal  November 16, 2016
    Essay

    Everyone Used to Raise Hogs

    By Josh Foreman  October 14, 2016
    Essay

    We’re Destroying Our Planet and All the Wild Things On It

    By Jane Alexander  October 4, 2016
    Excerpts

    Birding While Black

    By J. Drew Lanham  September 22, 2016
    Excerpts

    On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

    By Hugh Aldersey-Williams  September 20, 2016
    Essay

    Why Can’t Irish Writers Escape the Sea?

    By Brendan Mac Evilly  August 26, 2016
    Essay

    In Praise of the Micro Landscape

    By Angela Palm  August 19, 2016
    Essay

    Why Do Writers Love Birding So Much?

    By Katherine Towler  August 18, 2016
    Criticism

    You’re Probably Misreading Robert Frost’s Most Famous Poem

    By David Orr  August 18, 2016
    Profile

    Blair Braverman is Obsessed with the Things That Scare Her Most

    By Gemma de Choisy  August 12, 2016
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