S ophie Elmhirst's fascinating first book is "so much more than a shipwreck tale," said Laurie Hertzel in The Boston Globe. In 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey were sailing toward ...

These three books make up her Sea Trilogy, recently reissued by Library of America. Under the Sea-Wind was, Carson thought, her “first real act of literary creation.” ...

Carson’s first book, Under the Sea-Wind (1941), about the migratory patterns of fish and birds along North America’s Atlantic coast, concludes: “For once more the mountains would be worn ...

Five Best: Books on Sea Voyages Selected by Richard J. King, the author, most recently, of ‘Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea.’ By Richard J. King Share Resize ...

The British seaside holiday began with the railways. Before the mid 19th century and the tentacle-spread of rail to the ...

THE MOON IS FEMININE — Clemence Dane—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Tall, dark Clemence Dane (real name: Winifred Ashton) has not only written best-selling novels (Broome Stages, The Babyons), ...

You wrote in your book about Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoing a bill — which sailed through the Legislature with hardly any opposition — that would have established a loan program to help local ...

17 Books We Read This Week Inside the House of Windsor, culture and conflict on the Black Sea, Don Winslow’s new mob saga and more. Plus: Shakespeare for kids.

In Strout’s delicate, elliptical new novel, “Lucy by the Sea,” Barton struggles with disbelief as SARS-CoV-2 vectors into the city, infecting — and in some cases killing — acquaintances.