The Patch

  • The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
    The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
    By Chris Turner

    From Calgary International Airport to Pearson in Toronto, it's common to find middle-aged men sprawled across four seats at a departure gate, their heads mostly hidden by battered baseball caps or sweatshirt hoods, resting on those big ...

  • The Patch
    The Patch
    By John McPhee

    We had dinner at the New Golf Club with David and Jean Hamilton as guests of their friends and neighbors David and Ruth Malcolm. A St. Andrews native with auld Scotland in his ruddy face and pure Fife in his lilting voice, David Malcolm ...

  • The Patch
    The Patch
    By John McPhee

    An “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and ...

  • The Patch
    The Patch
    By Justina Chen Headley

    The kids at school want to know why Becca is wearing glasses and a patch.

  • The Patch
    The Patch
    By Justina Chen Headley, Justina Chen

    Instead of the boring, real reason she is wearing an eye patch and glasses, Becca gives her friends at school an imaginative, wild explanation for her new fashion accessory.

  • The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
    The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
    By Chris Turner

    PATCH. CRICKET NIGHT IN CANADA In the early evening on any given day in 2015, the suburban streets of Fort McMurray filled again with white luxury coaches. They crawled down quiet curving streets, dropping off day-shift workers and ...

  • The Patch
    The Patch
    By John McPhee

    This wide-ranging essay collection serves as a covert memoir of a cult literary figure—New Yorker writer John McPhee.

  • The Patch
    The Patch
    By Justina Chen Headley

    At first upset about having to wear glasses and an eye patch to correct her lazy eye, five-year-old Becca soon discovers that her new accessories allow her to take on such roles as a ballerina-pirate and a private eye.

  • The Patch
    By Justina Chen

    At first upset about having to wear glasses and an eye patch to correct her lazy eye, five-year-old Becca soon discovers that her new accessories allow her to take on such roles as a ballerina-pirate and a private eye.

  • The Patch
    The Patch
    By Jason Cantrell

    Long ago, something alien and uncanny fell to the earth.

  • The Patch
    By Maria Victoria Aguirre Cox, Ernest Aguirre Cox

    The Patch