August 26, 2013
Paul Harding, Transcendentalist, From Tinkers to Enon
Short form: Tinkers was no fluke — the little gem of a novel that caught a word-of-mouth wave and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010;...| More
September 8, 2012
Ralph Nader: One Citizen’s View from Winsted,...
Mary McGrath photo Ralph Nader on Main Street can still see the flatbed trucks hauling textile machinery out of his hometown in the 1950s, his...| More
August 25, 2012
Bernd Heinrich and our Journey — from...
I went out to the wild woods of western Maine in the late summer to inhale the biologist Bernd Heinrich‘s experience of Life Everlasting —...| More
February 10, 2012
Pico Iyer: Channeling Graham Greene and the...
“Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the...| More
July 13, 2010
Nicholas Carr: our brains, drowning in the...
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Nicholas Carr. (27 minutes, 13 mb mp3) Photo: William Taylor for wired.com Nicholas Carr is famous for fretting...| More
March 31, 2010
Nell Painter’s History of White People: it’s...
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Nell Irvin Painter. (27 minutes, 16 mb mp3) Nell Painter and I seem to have opposite takes on...| More
August 10, 2007
On Emerson’s "Spiritual Laws"
Mary and The Emerson Summer Gang, I apologize for the delay in getting this out. I spent the weekend writing and writing, always finding myself...| More
August 3, 2007
The Harold Bloom Tapes (Part 1)
In the summer of 2003, around the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birth, I spent an afternoon with the Sage of New Haven, Professor Harold...| More
August 3, 2007
The Harold Bloom Tapes (Part 2)
In the summer of 2003, around the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birth, I spent an afternoon with the Sage of New Haven, Professor Harold...| More
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