The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape By Katie Holten, Tin House Books. 320 pp. $26.96. Communicators. Migrants. Soothsayers. Beings more deserving of the rights of personhood ...

THE LANGUAGE OF TREES is a beautiful, haunting tale of a family separated by war. When an American translator ventures to a Middle East combat zone, an overfriendly neighbor volunteers to help his ...

After he'd finally had it with painting portraits, John Singer Sargeant would hire a taxi and tell the driver to randomly stop anywhere, and that would be where he would paint his next landscape.

A lifelong relationship with trees, from artistic subject to childhood confidante, has inspired Mary Neri King to create this special collection of artworks in the new Gallery 625 show, “The Language ...