Institutions associated with publishing have announced lists of words that stand out from the previous year for one reason or ...

I go to my solitary woodland walks as the homesick return to their homes.” Henry David Thoreau There are so many wild, beautiful and strange places in this country but many of them have been ravaged ...

Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Four Seasons Hotel Boston, which overlooks the Boston Public Garden, is a luxurious hotel with ...

The Buffett Institute for Global Affairs welcomed English Prof. Sarah Dimick to discuss climate change’s impact on the ...

At the end of 2024, the Oxford English Dictionary announced its word of the year: brain rot. The first recorded use of the term was in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau’s novel “Walden.” Thoreau lamented ...

Read this sentence from Henry David Thoreau (I paraphrase): “The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then, when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.” [i] Thoreau accomplishes ...

“I have lived entirely too much of my life in the 19th century!” Randall Fuller laughs. And indeed, all of the Kansas University professor’s previous books explored America’s intellectual landscape ...

Like two of my heroes, Henry David Thoreau and Charles Darwin, I do my best thinking while on walks. Thoreau trekked the ...