Neil Shea

Neil Shea’s first book, Frostlines: Dispatches from the New Arctic, will be published next year.  

Arctic Fantasies

The region has long been an object of dreams, desire, and misunderstanding

By Neil Shea | Monday April 11, 2022
A fisherman stands holding an oar on a narrow wooden raft, floating in a calm sea, sunlight breaking through clouds in the distance.

Take Me Away From Here

Nine books to transport you to other lands as you face the growing number of days at home

By Neil Shea | Tuesday April 21, 2020
Shea: An Alaskan husky named Laban

The Barents Sea: Land of Perpetual Night

As we traveled northward, the twilight diminished, the sky grew darker, until finally our ship crossed into polar night

By Neil Shea | Monday March 2, 2020

What Michael Herr Meant to Me

On Dispatches, mentors, and writing about war

By Neil Shea | Friday July 8, 2016

A Bizarre Bazaar

By Neil Shea | Monday September 7, 2015

W. S. Merwin’s The Book of Fables

Wonder can matter more than statistics and facts

By Neil Shea | Monday July 6, 2015

A Tale of War and Forgetting

Rescuing the memory of a cataclysm

By Neil Shea | Monday September 8, 2014

Learning to Let It Happen

By Neil Shea | Monday February 3, 2014

The After-War

Some wounds don’t bleed

By Neil Shea | Friday December 6, 2013

A Moment Alone

By Neil Shea | Monday January 14, 2013

Gravity

By Neil Shea | Monday January 7, 2013

Repetition, Truth

By Neil Shea | Monday December 31, 2012

Christmas Day

By Neil Shea | Monday December 24, 2012

Do Not Kill

By Neil Shea | Monday December 17, 2012

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