Nonfiction

Recalling journeys in Colombia and Ecuador, a writer weaves together the stories of two fathers and their sons, a curandera, the colonial export of bullfighting to Colombia, and a hunt for a black guinea pig.

A daughter traces the orbits of her parents’ romance, drawing on art, history, tides, and lunar phases to understand the solar system’s choreography and the changes that accompany a life partnership.

Hiking through Palouse River Canyon in Washington state, a writer searches for the sublime and contemplates the power of water to shape the earth over millennia.

At the conference of the International Society for the Study of Time in Yamaguchi, Japan, a poet and translator delights in her fellow presenters’ ideas, the sensory pleasures of her new surroundings, and the slippage in time that traveling can create.

A daughter visits her parents in Southern California in the wake of her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, navigating the difficult terrain of respecting their decisions while ensuring he has good health care.

Lured back to the Mojave Desert by her desire to find a clear relation to place, a researcher wrestles with nightly winds that steal her belongings, and embraces the clarity of solitude.

Grieving the loss of familial tongues, a once trilingual, second-generation Texan considers if a loss of identity is the cost of assimilation.

A former Christian Scientist grappling with her faith rescues amphibians to heal herself.