counterpoint

Questioning the value of dams requires a serious readjustment in the country's notion of progress, a prospect threatening to some and daunting to a...

Questioning the value of dams requires a serious readjustment in the country's notion of progress, a prospect threatening to some and daunting to a...

The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenag...

A young lawyer in Los Angeles is called back to his family's farm in rural Australia and plunged into a complex struggle between past and present, ...

Ranging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, here Berry graceful...

In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact tha...

“A thoughtful perspective on humans' capacity for moral behavior.” —Kirkus Reviews“A comprehensive introduction to religious skepticism.” —Publishe...

Taking its title from a question often asked of polyglots, What Language Do I Dream In? is Elena Lappin's stunning memoir about how language runs ...

"The reasoned and insistent exhortations of a man with a cause who, rather than mellowing with age and wisdom, continues to grow in forcefulness an...

In this collection, Herbert Morris gathers 15 poems in his two signature modes, the dramatic monologue and the meditative reverie. His subjects inc...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, P...

Reading the West Book Awards NomineeLonglisted for the Aspen Words Literary PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA dazzling debut colle...

One of America’s most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills of the Pacific Northwest in search of Bigfoot—and finds the wildness with...

No one in their right mind travels across Siberia in the middle of winter in a modified Russian jeep, with only a CD player (which breaks on the fi...

"John Verdon writes grown–up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well–developed characters and crimes that have socia...

“Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel.” —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah MagazineThree husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents a...

A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from "America's greatest phi...

A compelling inquiry of the meaning of wilderness follows the author's exploration of local landscapes such as a hedge maze and town parks in searc...

The winds of the world have sculpted the land and all aspects of nature, but they've also shaped humans — histories, cultures and settlements. Ephe...

Composed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry’s personal lif...

A fierce, funny, unsentimental book about growing older, about grace and forgiveness, and about hope for a world we must too soon leave behind.His ...

"Every word here feels set down with care and fierce conscience. The resulting narrative glows." —San Francisco Chronicle A novel of rich details ...

In the Willapa Hills of southwest Washington, both the human community and the forest community are threatened with extinction. Virtually every acr...

The woman who elevated food writing to an art is at her best in this mouthwatering collection of memoirs and recipes.Boldly confessing her prejudic...