Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Aya Koda, who died in 1990, was a Japanese writer and the daughter of a famous author, Rohan Koda. One of her last books was Tree, an account of her journeys to visit famous trees around Japan. It has ...

Brenda Bence said, “What you give comes back to you ten-fold.” This simply means that supposedly if you give of yourself, the reward is ten times as great back to you in some form or some capacity. I ...

A White House official tells MS NOW that Secretary of State Rubio intentionally avoided becoming the face of the Iran deal because he understood how unlikely it was to succeed. Meanwhile, a new book ...

HUANGSHAN, China — As temperatures neared their midday peak, Hu Xiaosong was doing his regular patrol, at an altitude of more than 5,500 feet, to protect a 1,000-year-old pine tree that he says is ...

Africa’s population is now estimated at nearly 1.5 billion people; the continent is urbanizing faster than any other region in the world and projections suggest that nearly 80% of future population ...

The photographs in this volume, taken between 1906 and 1913, were originally produced for Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry’s The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, an ambitious photographic ...

Trees make time feel slow, but Paul DeJong knows better. Maybe we could control the pace of the day by paying attention to where we live, to whom we see and to what we smell, or being fascinated by a ...

Suzanne Simard’s new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science ...

Dr. Lindsay Branham, an environmental psychologist, scholar, author, Emmy-nominated filmmaker and Aspen Times columnist, originally didn’t know that when you talk to trees, they could talk back. But ...