Fiction by Benjamin Percy

The tree threatens to crush the larvae into a yellow paste if the wasps do not do its bidding and find the girl.

Nonfiction by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

An entomologist determines that a colleague’s fear of chemicals is not so different from the migration of horn flies to the belly of a cow.

Fiction by Ron Rash

Arsonists are always obsessive, so he won’t stop until he’s caught or the rain comes.

Nonfiction by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque: like Darwin, but more fun. Decades before The Origin of Species, an eccentric Frenchman flounders on the edge of discovery.

Nonfiction by Suzanne Stryk

In the shadow of a T. rex, one artist ponders what it means to trace a history, and whether future generations will trace ours.