Dog Songs

With elegant brevity, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Mary Oliver celebrates the loyalty and joy of canines, namely her own dog Percy (“not/ thinking, not weighing anything, just running forward”).

Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate

“In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide—sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work,...