Gavin Van Horn, executive editor, and Heather Swan, poetry editor, selected essays and poetry for Sensoria to call attention to the wondrous ways in which humans and other-than-human beings experience and perceive the world.

Love & Other Monsters, a new novel by Emily Franklin, is the untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monsters — both those on the page and those who walk among us.

At a time of uncertainty, The Forest Year offers a gentle, sustaining vision: that by becoming rooted—by noticing, returning, and caring—we can find both meaning and resilience in the natural world.