Henry David Thoreau

Into the Wild

by James Marcus,

Henry David Thoreau as prophet, naturalist, and stealth comedian

Inside the May Issue

by James Marcus, on April 13, 2017

The human network behind Snowden's leak, the scandal of mental health in West Africa, Islam's forgotten reformation, and more...

New Books

by Christine Smallwood,

The protagonist and narrator of E. L. Doctorow’s twelfth novel, Andrew’s Brain (Random House, $26), is a clumsy cognitive scientist who relates the story of his life from an undisclosed location…

Single-player mode

by Tracy Fullerton,

The spirit of disobedience

by Curtis White,

An invitation to resistance

At Walden Pond

by E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White,

Quabbin

by Nicholas Knowles Bromell,

The unhandselled globe. With Thoreau in darkest Maine

by Maxine Kumin,

Walking the Cape

by David Black,

Distance measured in time

Thoreau and the Harvard libureaucracy

by Ralph Waldo Emerson,

The pleasures and perils of discovery

by Charles Poore,