Friends Like These: On Thoreau and Emerson
Daegan Miller reviews Jeffrey S. Cramer’s new book about the friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Daegan Miller is a writer, critic, and historian. His writing has appeared in The Point, Aeon, Bookforum, and 3:AM, among other places. His first book, This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent (2018), was chosen by the Guardian, LitHub, and EcoLit Books as a best of 2018. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his family.
Daegan Miller reviews Jeffrey S. Cramer’s new book about the friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A quiet bombshell of a biography that reclaims a revolutionary Thoreau for the 21st century.
Daegan Miller reviews Robert M. Thorson’s “The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years.”