Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

 
By Aaron Robertson  February 19, 2025
Literary History

An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

By Megan Marshall  February 12, 2025
In Conversation

John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

By James Hibbard  June 7, 2024
Louisa May Alcott

Nonfiction That Rivals Little Women: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

By Liz Rosenberg  October 24, 2023
Philosophy

On Learning How to Live From Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Mark Matousek  June 22, 2023
Biography

“I Feel Like a Feather Floating in the Atmosphere.” How Thoreau Reckoned with the Loss of His Brother

By Robert D. Richardson  January 25, 2023
The History of Literature

Why Walt Whitman Wrote Leaves of Grass

By History of Literature  June 6, 2022
Literary History

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

By Dominic Green  April 21, 2022
Education

How Thoreau Launched the Transcendentalist Experiment in Education

By Robert A. Gross  November 10, 2021
Nature Writing

How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans’ Relationship to Nature

By Tyler Green  October 7, 2021
Keen On

David Gessner on Channeling Thoreau Throughout the Pandemic

By Keen On  July 19, 2021
Walking

On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

By Jeremy DeSilva  April 19, 2021
Poets

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

By Mark Edmundson  April 16, 2021
Letters

Who Exactly Was Rilke’s Young Poet Correspondent?

By Damion Searls  November 30, 2020
Economics

Are Civilization and Income Inequality Inextricably Intertwined?

By Christopher Ryan  October 1, 2019
On The Self

On the Intoxicating Power of Forgetting Where You Came From

By Lewis Hyde  June 18, 2019
Essay

Discovering Ralph Waldo Emerson in the Golden Age of Sneakers

By A. Sandosharaj  April 10, 2019
Feature

Writers of the Zodiac: Playful Gemini? You Have a Way With Words

By Randon Rosenbohm  June 20, 2018
Feature

Jackpot! 8 Recent Rare Book Finds in the Wild

By Rebecca Rego Barry  June 11, 2018
Feature

15 Famous Writers on the Perils of a Formal Education

By Emily Temple  August 29, 2017
Criticism

There’s No Such Thing As Historical Fiction

By Paul Lynch  July 26, 2017
Deep Dive

A Feminist Thoreau

By Rafia Zakaria  November 30, 2016
Essay

How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

By Jonathon Sturgeon  September 8, 2016
Criticism

Michel de Montaigne, Time Traveler

By Hannah Brooks-Motl  February 29, 2016
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