MY NAME MEANS “BITTER,” is something I liked to say in high school, back when I was trying things out. It was one of many schticks; another was to look theatrically at the watchband I wore, its bezel ...

IT’S SIX A.M. WHEN I drive my scooter from a rented flat in Siolim, North Goa, to the plateau in Thivim, where I am supposed to meet Jalmesh Karapurkar, an ecological researcher and educator. Before I ...

How can a novel influence how we see and care for the natural world? How does a fiction writer change the mind of a reader when they tell the story of a spider, a tree, grasses on the plain, a robin, ...

MY WIFE, ELIZABETH, CALLS THEM my girlfriends, a joke that quietly hardened into a fact. When I come home from work in the summer, I go directly to the narrow strip of yard between our house and the ...

THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ask about your pregnancy history. It is very important that you provide accurate personal health history, age, lifestyle factors, known medical conditions, and current ...

ONCE, SNORKELING OFF HAWAII’S BIG ISLAND, I was delighted when a dolphin slipped across my legs, his supple flanks cool and sleek as silk. Another juvenile dolphin streaked under my outstretched hand, ...

IT’S AN UNEXPECTED SIGHT for an aquarium. Not just the mariachi band, dressed to the nines, wearing matching black sombreros wide as satellite dishes. The truly odd part of the video is their audience ...

Bats in the belfry. I’ve worked with threatened lesser long-nosed bats, who are great pollinators of tall cacti, agaves, and tree morning glories, and their roosting caves don’t get no respect. I’ve ...

I HAVEN’T BEEN SLEEPING MUCH LATELY. I’ve read that those of us who don’t sleep well might be the descendants of our ancestral night watchers—those who learned to stay awake or sleep light to keep the ...

STROLL ON DOWN TO your local bookstore, past birdsong and blooming, under whatever light is or is not falling through shapely clouds and pick up some beautiful new books!

The Spring 2026 issue, Working the Land: Lessons in Labor and Collective Action, explores the relationship between labor and the environment and calls for solidarity at a time when that value is under ...

Camille Dungy: I completely love that after all these years of talking, our books are coming out in the same month. And the last word in both titles is love. Sean Hill: It’s pretty awesome. CD: This ...