Language Is a Virus, and People Could Die
The COVID pandemic seemed to accelerate the spread of new viral media, but viruses mutate, pop culture replicates, and everything’s a cover song.
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Solitude Stands in the Window: Thoreau’s ‘Walden’
Henry David Thoreau's Walden as a 19th century model for 21st century COVID-19 quarantine.
As Thoreau Says, Not As He Does: ‘The Boatman’ and ‘Walden and Civil Disobedience’
It is what Thoreau wrote about how to live -- not, mind you, the way he actually lived -- that makes him a significant cultural figure.
Detachment and Re-attachment: The Mind of a Hermit No More
Christopher Knight disappeared into the woods at the age of 20 and returned at 47 without a masterpiece, without a testimony of life’s greater purpose, without anything profound to convey.
Will Yet Another Scholarly Trip to Walden Yield Any New Truths?
This vigorous interdisciplinary approach brings a revealing new perspective to a well-worn classic of American literature.