Mapping the Interior
by Stephen Graham Jones
This is only my second time reading SGJ, but this novella has made me a fan. This Indigenous coming-of-age story is short but deep, subtle yet horrifying. After Junior's father dies in an accidental d... (Anika)
New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
by Mary Oliver
“One morning/the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident,/and didn’t see me—and I thought:/so this is the world./I’m not in it./It is beautiful.” There is a reverent curiosity in Mary Oliver... (Shane)
The Wild Beneath
by Kelly Anderson
The Wild Beneath is an epic love story as well as a love letter to the ocean: its danger, mystery, and beauty. In the aftermath of a Pacific Northwest tsunami, Annie—who has lived on a sailboat nearly... (Anika)
Trash!: A Garbageman's Story
by Simon Paré-Poupart, translated by Pablo Strauss
Like the authors of some of my favorite recent memoirs—Hilary Peach's Thick Skin, Finn Murphy's The Long Haul, Charlotte Gill's Eating Dirt—Paré-Poupart had access to the class-elevating levers of edu... (Tom)