Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Terry Tempest Williams, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-74024-7

Utah naturalist Williams ponders the loss of her mother to cancer and the disastrous flooding of a bird refuge in a moving account of the interrelations between personal tragedy and natural history. Author tour. (Sept.)

Featured Nonfiction Reviews

Paula Byrne

Byrne (Kick: The True Story of JFK’s Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth) captures in this insightful biography the life of British author Barbara Pym (1913–1980), drawing Continue reading »

Mike Unwin

Photographer Unwin (Flights of Passage) takes a tour of 80 bird species in this attractive volume. Unwin surveys a range of birds, from fierce predators such as the Harpy Eagle Continue reading »

Javier Zamora

Poet Zamora (Unaccompanied) presents an immensely moving story of desperation and hardship in this account of his childhood migration from El Salvador to the U.S. To reunite Continue reading »

Edward Chisholm

A Dickensian tale of a young man’s trial by fire in a French bistro gives rise to biting commentary on Parisian culture in Chisholm’s intoxicating debut. Underemployed in the Continue reading »