Nature-centered novelist and conservationist Millet, a writer of spectacular imagination, scientific knowledge, conscience, and artistry, turns to nonfiction, entwining personal revelations with keen inquiries into our misapprehension of the full extent of our dependence on the living world we are so precipitously destroying. Each of the writers below does the same in their own creative, caring, and illuminating way.
Erosion: Essays of Undoing. By Terry Tempest Williams. 2019. Farrar/Sarah Crichton.
An apostle of life and earth and a soul-revving teller of true stories, Williams brings lyricism, candor, mystery, and factual exactitude to the affecting essays collected here, each a fresh, personal, lucid, and passionate take on why it’s essential for humanity to conserve nature on our warming planet.
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks…
