[W]hat Emerson regarded as a defect was perhaps his essential virtue: his unwillingness to deny a truth because it was ...

“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental.

We Minnesotans are almost all lucky enough to live near a river. The Mississippi, Minnesota, Red, Pigeon, Cascade, Crow, St. Croix, St. Louis, Whitewater, Zumbro and thousands of other waterways flow ...

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Author and international whitewater river guide Bridget Crocker shares the books that helped inspire her new memoir, 'The ...

Susan Choi’s new book, Flashlight, considers the evolution of rage.

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It is no secret that human beings are hardwired to react in a certain way to certain things. People have been exploiting ...

It’s been 100 years since Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and 60 years since he was assassinated. His expansive legacy is the focus of a new book written by journalist Mark Whitaker. He sat ...

St. Anselm has started a senior citizen club that meets most Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Our Lady of Victory Hall, ...

Scott, and “Is a River Alive?” by the renowned nature writer Robert Macfarlane. In several respects, the two books differ. “Is a River Alive?” is a wide-ranging feat of reporting that ...

In Robert Macfarlane’s forthcoming book ‘Is a River Alive?’ he offers a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings who should be recognized ...