Back from the Underworld: Helen Macdonald’s Wanderlust
Tess Taylor meets with the author of “H is for Hawk” and the new collection “Shaler’s Fish” for birdwatching and…
Tess Taylor
Tess Taylor is the author of the poetry collection The Forage House. Her nonfiction and poetry have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
For the journalist William Finnegan, the art of catching a wave has served as an analogue to finding the arc…
The Book of Unknown Americans
Crossing the U.S.-Mexican border with a family living in the Land of Opportunity’s shadows.
Useless Landscape: A Guide for Boys
A California haunted by death and suffused with sex is the subject of D. A. Powell’s biting collection of verse.
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
An exploration of the imperfect art of translation.
Moonwalking With Einstein
An ancient art ofrecollection, rediscovered by modern “memory athletes.”
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
One of the most well-known stories of European literature is shattered, and re-made anew.
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
The correspondence between two great poets yields a portrait of a friendship and a treasure trove of language.
True West: Wallace Stegner’s Life and Letters
Two new volumes unearth the life and correspondence of the author of Angle of Repose