“There are so many questions. There are too many irregularities.”

The prose is an engaging blend of biology and storytelling...

Rockefeller soon gave himself over to a dream of sailing around the world. An early stop was Cumberland Island, the southernmost of Georgia’s Golden Isles...

Those few minutes in his boat were so powerful that they challenged his assumptions about what’s real.

The way this story gets told gives the reader many reasons to stick with it despite the potential for feeling worried.

The Library of America recruited the help of editor Sandra Steingraber in recently publishing a new retrospective on marine biologist Rachel Carson and her seminal role in jump-starting environmentalism...

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking ofEl Faro 

By Rachel Slade (HarperCollins, 2018)

Reviewed by Tina Cohen

“The Vietnam War was a complete betrayal of the young men and women who fought in it,” writes Charles Kniffen.