Reader’s Corner
Reveling in and discussing ideas and books, together.
Biography/Memoir
Nature’s Beloved Son
THE HABIT OF pressing plants began early for John Muir. He collected them for pleasure; he collected…
Making Waves and Riding the Currents
Those of us who spend our days working to shield the planet from the howling winds of rapacious greed…
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor
THE MOST FAMOUS environmental heroes love the land, sometimes more than they care about people. But…
A Naturalist and Other Beasts
GEORGE B. SCHALLER—ethologist, conservationist, award-winning author, and vice-president of…
The Cats of Mirikitani
WHEN YOU ARE ASTOUNDED by a film as much as I was by The Cats of Mirikitani, there can be an…
The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner
EARLY IN THE MORNING, most mornings, Wallace Stegner practiced a habit he described as “warming…
The Zookeeper’s Wife
At first glance, Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife seems quite a departure…
The Wet Collection
The Wet Collection begins in the belly of a natural history museum, where, Joni Tevis writes,…
Nine Ways to Cross a River
It is, in the end, a matter of perspective: A river lays down a dividing line, or it suggests confluence…
Courage for the Earth
On the one-hundredth anniversary of Rachel Carson’s birthday, my almost-four-year-old daughter…
