Andrea Tarr

From TV to film, the Gilded Age is all the rage. The following novels illuminate multiple facets of the luxurious—though not-so-golden—era.

Climate fiction often spans speculative fiction, literary fiction, fantasy, and eco-fiction as it addresses topics such as carbon emissions, vanishing species, and global warming. However, cli-fi seems virtually limitless in its scope, subjects, and approaches, as these novels of lyrical observation, loss, and wonder illustrate.

The sea has fascinated authors throughout time. Popular fiction genres from domestic fiction to wartime novels involve a profusion of pelagic topics and themes.

Interested in planting, cultivating, and delighting in spring flower bulbs? It is a lovely and easy entry into gardening. Bulbs can be planted in pots, in raised beds, or directly in the ground.

Travel the world through these film gems from the past several years; each is likely to reward viewers with new discoveries and appreciation.

“Research” comes from the Middle French word “recherche” (“to go about seeking”). Whether it’s understood as fact-finding, investigation, or exploration, research requires careful attention to detail and locale, both of which are helpful when composing well-analyzed works of historical fiction, as the following five books demonstrate. 

Take pleasure in these fiction picks about gardens and flowers, from the likes of Virginia Woolf and Jessica Francis Kane.