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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pulling away from the dock with the small fleet of other Ballard’s charter boats, DeWitt’s opening morning plan was to head out the mouth of the Rainy River and west across Four-Mile Bay to a ...

Pulling away from the dock with the small fleet of other Ballard’s charter boats, DeWitt’s opening morning plan was to head out the mouth of the Rainy River and west across Four-Mile Bay to a ...

From the second line of Robert Macfarlane’s new ode to nature ... into a question with fundamental consequences: Is this river — that river, any river — alive? Not simply as an ecosystem ...

In China, the Three Gorges dam project on the Yangtze River has diverted so much water that it has actually slowed the rotation of the Earth. Nature writer Robert Macfarlane and his young son Will ...