Emergence Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Magazine exploring ecology, culture, and spirituality. Webby Awards “Best Writing (Editorial).” 2022 Gold Signal Awards Winner. @emergencemagazine@zirk.us

Emergency
Daisy Hildyard
Join @PointReyesBooks this Thurs for Daisy Hildyard and Sarah Moss in conversation about Hildyard's new novel, Emergency, a lyrical work of autofiction that explores the dissolution of boundaries between the self and our earth. https://t.co/97AToz14Vx https://t.co/XwSOtX9MGG
Hardcover, 2022
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
“The knowledge we need is already within the circle; we just have to remember it to find it again and let it teach us.” Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, takes a long view of life on Earth in “Ancient Green: Moss, Climate, and Deep Time.” https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/ancient-green/ https://t.co/C97bV9WkiK
Paperback, 2015
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wild Is the Wind: Poems
Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips’ Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, "Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020," includes this prose poem—an extended meditation on his experience of the woods. Read Carl’s “Among the Trees” from our archives. https://t.co/Fzz6KGdNzV https://t.co/WkKNsX253q
Paperback, 2019
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Jenny Odell
In this sweeping interview, @the_jennitaur, artist and author of “Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock,” invites us to embrace ways of relating to time that are tuned to the rhythms and patterns of the Earth. Listen to ”Another Kind of Time.” https://t.co/4hbkesG3L6 https://t.co/aU8NeXY6hJ
Paperback, 2024
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time
Beth Moon
As long-lived beings, trees serve as rooted witnesses to the shifting landscapes around them. But with land development, drought, insect outbreaks, and rising temperatures, many of the world’s most ancient trees are ailing. Photo by Beth Moon. https://t.co/6cweZssKsf https://t.co/wuQarjQWiH
Hardcover, 2014
$49.95$24.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips’ Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, "Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020," includes this prose poem—an extended meditation on his experience of the woods. Read Carl’s “Among the Trees” from our archives. https://t.co/Fzz6KGdNzV https://t.co/WkKNsX253q
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dangerous Love
Ben Okri
“Like an alchemist, Okri has channeled the ‘ancient, unyielding’ forces through a reordering of ‘familiar images,’ creating something universal at a time when the idea of the universal has long been thought impossible.” https://t.co/2XrmOjMElR @benokri via @nytimes
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Overstory
Richard Powers
This week on our podcast, we revisit our conversation with Richard Powers, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel “The Overstory.” Richard discusses the kind of storytelling that acknowledges the reciprocal, communal existence of all living things. https://t.co/Ej7AKd3zu8 https://t.co/pQA591aJf0
Paperback, 2019
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
James Bridle
A collection emerging from a practice of contemplative/conversational reading alongside James Bridle’s “Ways of Being,” as curated by @kristatippett and @onbeing. Featuring @RobGMacfarlane, @DrSuzanneSimard, Jane Goodall, & Robin Wall Kimmerer. https://t.co/2Lk8xdJY2i https://t.co/3ZsaetgEBm
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Amitav Ghosh
In this interview, Amitav Ghosh discusses his new book “The Nutmeg’s Curse” and calls on storytellers to lead us in the necessary work of collective reimagining. Listen to “Beings Seen and Unseen,” a conversation with @GhoshAmitav. Photo by Sumit Dayal. https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ https://t.co/5U2aWumrXL
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book