A seminal Latin American novel to a devotional practicum on living in place: what we're reading this month.
photography
Tracing the course of a river from the Haute Vienne to the
Photography's Cues to Decline
Documenting states of rupture in North East England in the 1970s and 1980s. By Chris Killip and Graham Smith.

Beautifully Untameable Quadrupeds
Great wildlife photography. Winners of the PA2F Environmental Photography Awards.

Faces of the Planet: Landscape Photography From On High
Where we live — from the photo gallery of the European Space Agency.

Will You Be My Valentine?
From us to you, a collection of photographs asking the question.

Yellow Pond Lily, Do you open for thee?
Paddle freely, speak to a wildflower.

Stalking the Resistant Imagination
For artist and viewer, the resistant image offers rich possibilities. Photographs by Karl Schiffman.

Photography's Dream & Karl Schiffman As Witness
A man with a camera brings some focus to an excitable art form. By Whitney Smith.

Frieke Janssens' Freaky Virtuosity
A new book draws from twenty years of work by a passionately probing Belgium photographer. By Frieke Janssens.

Faces of the Wild: Ball Cactus
Cactus, O' Beautiful Cactus! A wildflower lover discovers the pink heart in an orb of prickles. By Alan M. Cvancara.
