In this week's issue you'll find recommendations for thrilling fiction and searing nonfiction alike. Novelist Callan Wink devises "a meditative and startling literary heist" in Beartooth, the story of two brothers roped into a risky criminal job in the protected lands of Yellowstone. Meanwhile, memoirist Karolina Ramqvist's Bread and Milk is "a sensual personal reflection" on the complicated role food has played in her life; and Lidia Yuknavitch explores ways that the body stores memories in her memoir Reading the Waves, a "vibrant work of self-revelation." Plus, the middle-grade graphic novel Sea Legs by Jules Bakes offers a "hilarious and turbulently emotional" depiction of friendship colored by the "dazzling range" of illustrator Niki Smith's splashy art.
For The Writer's Life, environmental journalist and photographer Arati Kumar-Rao discusses the importance of slow reporting and how she documented biodiversity through the long-term, long-form accounts collected in her debut book of essays, Marginlands.