Wild swimming and forest bathing have gained in popularity, all in a bid to improve our health. With "green prescriptions" now being issued by doctors instructing patients to spend time outdoors, the ...
We live in an age of climate emergency and eco-anxiety. This is, after all, the Anthropocene—a geological period defined by the bootprint of humans on Earth. Bearing witness to our place in the world ...
A new generation of poets, essayists, memoirists, and novelists is narrating stories of severed connections and exploitation—both their own and the Earth’s. In the winter of 2021, still very much in ...
UK ecocritic Richard Kerridge praises India's nature writing, from ancient traditions to modern works by Prerna Singh Bindra ...
ON THE EVE of the French revolution in 1789, an English country clergyman quietly prepared for the printing of his book. Like many first-time authors on the eve of publication, he felt not triumph but ...
John Alec Baker’s The Peregrine is both a brutal and beautiful observation of this bird of prey, which at the time of publication in 1967, was close to extinction. Transcending both nature writing and ...
This spring, I didn't find any morels in the woods around my house. But I did find a lot of other things. Barbara Crooker enters the shades and brush strokes of daily life with such reverence that ...