FREEDOM ON THE WATER
Mark Twain, “It’s Lovely to Live on a Raft” (from Huckleberry Finn, 1885)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The Mother’s Struggle” (from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852)
Kunikida Doppo, “River Mist” (1898)
Ernest Hemingway, “Big Two-Hearted River” (1925)
E. M. Forster, “The Road from Colonus” (1904)
Alice Munro, “The Found Boat” (1974)
DRAMA AND DANGER
Guy De Maupassant, “On the Water” (1876)
Traditional Mexican, “La Llorona”
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890)
Elizabeth Jane Howard, ‘Three Miles Up” (1951)
Cormac McCarthy, ‘The Dark Waters” (1965)
Oleksander Dobzhansky, “Easter Flood” (1948)
LOVE AND LOSS
Zora Neale Hurston, “Magnolia Flower” (1925)
Rabindranath Tagore, “The River Stairs” (1884)
Erskine Caldwell, “Warm River” (1932)
Huynh Quang Nhuong, “So Close” (1982)
Salwa Elhamamsy, “By the Nile” (2023)
Lesley Nneka Arimah, “What Is a Volcano?” (2017)
MYSTIC RIVERS
Ovid, “Arethusa” (8 CE)
Tao Yuanming, “Peach Blossom Spring” (421 CE) 263
Traditional Kalapuya, “Coyote Frees Water from the Frog People”
Kenneth Grahame, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (from The Wind in the Willows, 1908)
Herman Hesse, “The Ferryman” (1922)
Tony Birch, “Th e Ghost River” (2013)
Zadie Smith, “The Lazy River” (2017)
Elif Shafak, “Zaleekhah” (from There Are Rivers in the Sky, 2024)