Nonfiction

While living in Panama City, a writer who has ties to many countries labors through the nuances of fluency and translates music into modes of belonging.

Hiking through shifting landscapes near Moab with her family, a daughter navigates the reality of her father’s dementia.

A woman in love finds truth in the apocryphal stories of intimacy, pool games, and swarms of honeymoon flies.

A poet investigates how the architecture of I-houses shapes the narratives we tell about ourselves and each other.

An essayist hikes through an ancient seabed in the Huachuca Mountains, surveying the status of her relationships and of a rare but resilient desert flower.

Documenting an endangered American eel population in the Muhheakantuck River, a professor of natural history sees our own biology mirrored in the evolution, migration, and sexuality of these slinky ocean dwellers.

Under the waves of a storm off the Galápagos Islands, a biology student confronts her childhood fear of and fascination with the ocean, exploring the legacies of exclusion that have denied Black people in the United States access to swimming.

Too late to join a walking tour at Cedars of Lebanon State Park in Tennessee, a naturalist finds herself lost in the glades.