“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

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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 ...

Who among us has not sat by a river to contemplate its mysteries? Well then. Are rivers alive? The great British nature writer Robert Macfarlane (“Underland,” “Mountains of the Mind ...

Review: Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane (Penguin Random House) He has won many kinds of prizes for his books, so many that he has been spoken of as a likely Nobel Prize winner several ...

An image of a spring from “Is a River Alive?” by author Robert Macfarlane. (Photo credit Robert Macfarlane / Courtesy of W.W. Norton) Exactly how does he manage to have so many projects ...

Robert Macfarlane was out in the mountains climbing ... Macfarlane and I spoke recently about “Is a River Alive?” and I hope you’ll take a minute to read our conversation (or, uh, maybe ...

Robert Macfarlane is not easy to pin down ... and starting point a question his young son once put to him, “Is a River Alive?” If we can talk of rivers dying (and we do), then isn ...

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 ...

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