Henry David Thoreau Archives

Henry David Thoreau

Logorrhea

From Bjarki, Not Bjarki, which was published in January by the University of Iowa Press. What is wood? Consider the teenager’s nomenclature for an erect pecker. A peckerwood is a…

Into the Wild

by James Marcus,

Henry David Thoreau as prophet, naturalist, and stealth comedian

Inside the May Issue

by James Marcus,

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…