Philippa Lowthorpe pares Helen Macdonald’s intricately layered memoir down to what she considers essential, focusing on her choice to adopt a goshawk.

Who says a Zoom conversation can't get up close and personal? Minnesotans who logged into "Wednesday night's Talking Volumes event featuring bestselling nature essayist Helen Macdonald not only ...

On this episode of "Literary Arts: The Archive Project," naturalist, historian, illustrator, and writer Helen Macdonald shares stories and insights on a range of topics linked to the natural world.

Author Helen Macdonald. (Bill Johnston Jr.) This article is more than 4 years old. Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on July 20, 2021. Find that audio here. Helen Macdonald is admired ...

Helen Macdonald—a writer and longtime bird-watcher— turned to falconry and the works of T. H. White (the author of The Once and Future King), after the death of her father.

British author Helen Macdonald's book "H is for Hawk" telling the poignant story of how she trained a falcon as a way to deal with the grief of her father's sudden death won the prestigious Samuel ...

H Is for Hawk lands as a quiet, fierce study of mourning brought to life by director Philippa Lowthorpe, who co-wrote the screenplay with Emma Donoghue from Helen MacDonald’s memoir.

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the ...

Helen Macdonald's new collection of essays marks her as that rare nature writer whose subject is human nature every bit as much as the natural world.

To celebrate the inaugural selection of the InsideHook Book Club, Helen Macdonald's Vesper Flights, I was lucky to spend a little time talking with the author from her home in England earlier this ...

The author recommends works by Kurt Andersen, Helen Macdonald and more Newsletter sign up Rachel Slade is the author of "Into the Raging Sea" and "Making It in America " (Image credit: Courtesy Image) ...

VESPER FLIGHTS By Helen Macdonald At the height of World War II, the ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley, brother of the dystopian novelist Aldous Huxley, rallied his countrymen ...