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Ecological, nonfiction work "Is A River Alive?" explores the animacy and integrity of nature, but suffers from awkward pseudo ...
See how one homesick scholar put together a massive compendium of verse by former emperors, modern-day activists, soldiers, sages and Nobel winners.
In an exclusive reveal on "CBS Mornings," Oprah Winfrey announced her newest book club selection, Wally Lamb's "The River Is Waiting." "Wally is such a profoundly outstanding magician of words ...
Oprah Winfrey revealed "The River Is Waiting" by Wally Lamb as her newest book club selection on "CBS Mornings" on Tuesday. This is the third book by Lamb that Winfrey has picked. She described ...
“The River Is Waiting” is his new novel. Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by In an email interview, the author of “She’s Come Undone” was proud to say he still follows Oprah’s book pick ...
Likewise, his books are so various and yet so much themselves, it seems he has forged his own genre. Review: Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane (Penguin Random House) He has won many kinds of ...
An ambitious challenge has youngsters from two schools on Six Nations of the Grand River racing to read 280 kilometres worth of books. The read-a-thon was hatched by the YMCA of Hamilton ...
These are the questions posed by two strikingly congruent new books: “In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings,” by the late political scientist and anthropologist James C.
Perhaps the most moving and beautiful part of his book comes in the interludes between visits to faraway rivers in which Macfarlane tells the history of a small spring near his home in Cambridge ...
This context lends timeliness to Robert Macfarlane's latest book, which centres on his trips to four river systems. "Three are distant: the rivers of the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador ...
Our world is broken. Broken people mangle relationships. Time robs youth, beauty and health. All things naturally move from ...
Mike Huckabee's text to President Trump implicitly urging action against Iran had deep roots in Christian Zionist theology.