For those who were intellectually captivated by the recently broadcast seven part CBC Ideas series “The Myth of the Secular” and found yourself too engrossed in listening to jot down all the fascinating books being discussed, I’ve prepared what I hope will be a helpful list of those very works.
By now you’ve no doubt become aware of the teapot-filling tempest that was inspired by a few very well-spoken lines of Hilary Mantel’s brilliant lecture delivered as the first of the London Review of Books Winter Lecture series at the British Museum. However what is being obscured by all the dust kicked into the air […]
Robert Michael Pyle, author of such remarkable books as Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage, Walking the High Ridge : Life As Field Trip, and most recently, The Tangled Bank: Writings from Orion, made a rare guest blogger appearance in the Village Books Blog where he discussed his favorite nature books.
“Everyone is a birdwatcher, but there are two kinds of birdwatchers: those who know what they are and those who haven’t realized it yet.” So begins The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature, Jonathan Rosen’s investigation into not only the history of bird watching but into its very underlying spirit. While […]