Solitude Stands in the Window: Thoreau’s ‘Walden’
Henry David Thoreau's Walden as a 19th century model for 21st century COVID-19 quarantine.
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Mood Music for Ursula K. Le Guin Lovers
Ursula K. Le Guin's Music and Poetry of the Kesh brings speculative fiction world-building to a whole new level, in the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien's expansive Middle Earth mythos.
‘The Stranger in the Woods’ Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
Self-awareness is subjugated to the author's fascination with his muse in this telling of a modern-day hermit.
Is Humankind the New Planet and Species-Destroying Asteroid?
After fighting so long as a Cassandra of the coming ecological catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert's latest, The Sixth Extinction, embraces the long view of disaster.