Lowry, Malcolm, “Ultramarine” (Overlook Press 1962)

“Perhaps you will write about your experiences.” “Ja, perhaps,” I said. “That is certainly a point. but the desire to …

Rebecca Solnit “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” (Penguin 2005)

Art history in particular is often cast as an almost biblical lineage, a long line of begats in which painters …

Robert MacFarlane “The Wild Places” (Penguin 2008)

The association of the wild and the wood also runs deep in etymology. The two words are thought to have …

Micheal Ondaatje, Cat’s Table ( Vintage International, 2011)

The thing is men, with the kind of power that comes with money and knowledge, assume the universe. It allows …