There’s a certain type of person you’ve probably encountered in grade school. Perhaps you were this person yourself. This was the person who didn’t just like to read — reading was part of their ...

THE SEA IS MY BROTHER By Jack Kerouac Da Capo Press, $23 216 pages In 1956, Jack Kerouac burst upon the national literary scene with the publication of “On the Road,” his paean to the concept of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For much of the period “from the end of the Civil War to about 1890,” W. Jeffrey Bolster writes, the debate over the declining fish population of the North ...

Above: An excellent example of a well-managed strategic retreat from the coast occurred in 1999, when the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks was moved 2,900 feet back from an ...

A little birdie (bearing the not-very-ornithological name of Zach) requests a list of the ten works most likely to make you landlubbers as twisted educated about nautical affairs as the Naval Diplomat ...

Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the Irish to tell a good story for the IrishCentral Book Club. Described as both ...

In the preface to his masterful account of human history as shaped by the oceans, Cambridge Professor David Abulafia reminds us that the seas around us “account for something like 70% of the world’s ...