MacFarlane, Robert “The Old Ways (Viking 2012)

Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive …

MacFarlane, Robert “The Old Ways” (Viking 2012)

The second thing to know about sea roads is that they are not arbitrary. There are optimal routes to sail …

MacFarlane, Robert, “The Old Ways” (Viking 2012)

We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places–but we are far less good at saying …

Naslund, Sena Jeter, “Ahab’s Wife or, The Star Gazer” (Harper Perennial 1999)

When my hands were little, and my mother was teaching me to sew, she placed her hands over mine. She …