By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge

By the River: Essays from the Water's EdgeWhat is a river?, asks Amy Jane Beer, in the opening essay of this collection, which blends nature writing and memoir from some of the most exciting writers of today. Twelve writers consider the subject of rivers and how they shape us throughout our lives, demarcating cities as well as moulding our creative consciousness. Tessa Hadley revisits Rumer Goddens The River; Jo Hamya pays homage to Virginia Woolf; Michael Malay goes nightfishing for eels by

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Mild Vertigo explores the dizzying reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless stream of minutiae that forms a lonely life confined to a middle-class home

Marilyn's image is so universal that we can't help but believe we know all there is to know of her

Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for

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Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing

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Here too is an excoriating account of America's identity and future

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