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July 12, 2017
Bill McKibben
What Would Thoreau Think of Climate Change?
On the author's 200th birthday, what "Walden" can teach us about our own time.
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Donovan Hohn
Everybody Hates Henry
Literary saint or arrogant fraud—why do we need Thoreau to be one or the other?
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Edmund Wilson
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