Ralph Waldo Emerson for Everyone. James Marcus has written a companionable biography, meaning he always seems right next to the reader, explaining his approach as he goes along and places himself in ...

In “Three Roads Back,” Robert D. Richardson illuminates how early losses shaped the thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and William James.

When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a fairly gossamer way of thinking. The movement included a sizable number ...

One day after supermodel Gisele Bündchen’s tell-all interview with Vanity Fair dropped, former husband Tom Brady took to Instagram to post a famous quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, in which the ...