Content Categorized ‘Nonfiction’

Visiting with her family in her mother’s homeland of Armenia, an essayist ventures to a Christian monastery and a pagan temple, searching for her heritage among cross-stones and fish-dragons.

A writer and reader, interrupted by Instagram, considers threats to the intimacy of the solitary reader’s experience in the age of social media.

A writer chronicles the life and times of the African clawed frog, from the one her father purchased for her childhood terrarium, to the species’ part in the development of modern pregnancy tests, to her twin sister’s research on the frog’s role in the global chitryd pandemic.

After the death of a childhood acquaintance, a writer contemplates poverty, violence, and the culture of her hometown, examining her own escape from it, and the lives of those who stayed.

On the shores of a suburban lake, a poet and essayist walks the line between decaying industry and remnant wildness, trying to transform the language she has for these landscapes.

A transplanted Hoosier sends missives from his polling place in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; the Cracker Barrel; and the ice-mulched peony beds of the South.

Traveling into the heart of coal country along with her friend and collaborator, Kelley Libby, a Virginia writer documents time spent with coal miner, Regular Baptist preacher, and renowned singer Frank Newsome, and tracks changes in her own thinking about her state’s environment and how people interact with it.