But he died before he could finish his book on natural history. As Emerson put it, Thoreau “depart[ed] out of Nature before… he has been really shown to his peers for what he is.”
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Becoming Estranged from My Family ‘Was the Best Thing for Me’
Jessica Berger Gross on what it means to sever ties with your family.
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Becoming Estranged from My Family ‘Was the Best Thing for Me’
Jessica Berger Gross on what it means to sever ties with your family.
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Roxane Gay on the Final Frontier: Acceptance for Every Female Body
Roxane Gay on her new memoir and on gaining acceptance for the female body in every shape and size.
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A Portrait of the Artist as an Undocumented Immigrant
A Mexican writer recalls undocumented life at a restaurant in New York and as a nanny in Connecticut.
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A Portrait of the Artist as an Undocumented Immigrant
A Mexican writer recalls undocumented life at a restaurant in New York and as a nanny in Connecticut.
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The Mosul University Library: Reborn From the Ashes
The Mosul University Library, once home to centuries-old books and documents, is rebuilding after ISIS destroyed it.
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A Sociology of the Smartphone
Smartphones have altered the texture of everyday life, digesting many longstanding spaces and rituals, and transforming others beyond recognition.
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A Sociology of the Smartphone
Smartphones have altered the texture of everyday life, digesting many longstanding spaces and rituals, and transforming others beyond recognition.
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A Witness to Other People’s Lives, Not Living My Own
Unhappiness Cloak: An excerpt from “Weird in a World That’s Not,” by Jennifer Romolini.