Books For Your Valentine

Andrea Gibson explores themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, family, and forgiveness with stunning imagery and a fierce willingness to delve into the exploration of what it means to heal and to be different.

South and West comes from Joan Didion’s notebook that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970. Through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama she interviews prominent local figures, describes motels, diners, and various other odds and ends in their trip.

Woven throughout M Train are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation, as well as singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.

From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir Nabokov’s letters to Véra Slonim chronicle a half-century-long love story, one that is playful, romantic, and memorable.

The Wood for the Trees is the joyful, lyrical portrait of ancient woodland in Oxfordshire, England. Fortey leads us through the seasons over the course of a year, as he fells trees in winter, admires bluebells in spring, and hunts moths in June and mushrooms in September.