A river is a flowing body of water, but what if it were also a living being with legal rights? That is the question at the core of British nature writer Robert Macfarlane’s latest book. Inspired by ...

Robert Macfarlane has climbed to the icy summits of windswept mountains and plunged into the darkened depths of the earth to research his books, and he says that may have given people the impression ...

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 ...

With the act of reading books in worldwide decline, Smith pushes back in a cool, Joan Didion-like analysis of where we’ve ...