Robert Macfarlane
He set out to find what wildness is left in Britain and Ireland, expecting remoteness — islands, summits, moors — and slept out in fifteen of them over a year. Then Roger Deakin, his friend, kept pointing him back toward…
Anna Brones
Fika started as slang — Swedes flipped the syllables of kaffe and got fika. It’s a coffee break, but calling it that undersells it. It happens once or twice a day, everywhere, at every workplace, and it’s a verb: You…
Robert Macfarlane
It’s a book about company. Macfarlane’s argument is that an old path is a record of everyone who wore it, that walking one puts you in their company whether you want it or not, and that this does something to…
Patrik Svensson
Who knew there could be an international bestseller all about eels? Turns out, as Patrik Svensson writes, quite a few knew. Centuries of leading thinkers—Pliny the Elder, Aristotle, Sigmund Freud, Rachel Carson—have been captivated by eels and their mysterious life…
