Nan Levinson, a Boston-based journalist, reports on civil liberties, politics, and culture. Her next book, War Is Not a Game, is about the recent G.I. antiwar movement. She is the author of ...

In 1944, the 51-year-old Nan Shepherd, coming off an unhappy love affair, turned her attention to the manuscript that would become “The Living Mountain,” a book about Scotland’s Cairngorm ...