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Henry David Thoreau
January 6, 2022
MagazineSarah Blackwood
Emerson and Thoreau’s Fanatical Freedom
Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?
March 19, 2018
Jeet Heer
The Delusions of Trump-Era Escapism
Is unplugging from the news a rational solution or an abnegation of civic responsibility?
July 12, 2017
Bill McKibben
What Would Thoreau Think of Climate Change?
On the author's 200th birthday, what "Walden" can teach us about our own time.
August 1, 2016
A.N. Devers
Domestic Disobedience
In ‘Pond,’ Claire-Louise Bennett stomps all over writing-dude-in-nature territory with her poetic unraveling of Thoreau’s wilderness jaunt.
February 8, 2016
Branka Arsić
Henry David Thoreau’s Magical Thinking
After his brother’s death, the writer began to reconsider the science behind life.
November 6, 2014
Hillary Kelly
"I Think Spinster Is An Identity Every Woman Can Claim"
Talking with the author of 'Texts from Jane Eyre'
February 23, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Don't Call Henry David Thoreau a Hermit
August 9, 2013
Jake Halpern
From the Stacks: Living the Walden Life
July 3, 2006
November 7, 2011
Michael Kazin
Anarchism Now: Occupy Wall Street Revives an Ideology
August 8, 2005
Christine Stansell
America the Ruthless

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