What We Are Reading Today: ‘Clouds’ by Edward Graham

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Updated 10 November 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Clouds’ by Edward Graham

The mystery of clouds has captivated scientists and artists alike.

This unique book shows you how to use the meteorological techniques of nephology to identify these elusive and transmutable shapes.

“Clouds” blends a lively and engaging narrative by one of today’s leading meteorologists with an essay on historic cloud art, and includes a wealth of breathtaking cloud studies by some of the greatest artists ever to look skyward.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

Updated 21 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Silence So Deep It Rings’ by Laura Mcphee

Spanning almost all of Nevada and Utah and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming, the sparsely populated regions of the Great Basin and the Basin and Range Province have stories to tell—stories intimate and vast, familial, historical, and geological.

“In Silence So Deep It Rings,” renowned landscape photographer Laura McPhee challenges the tradition of nineteenth-century survey photography, capturing the sheer beauty and depth of the West while conveying what has since occurred on the surface of the land.