Eyeball and Over-Soul: Biographer James Marcus on the Infinitude of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He loved a broad margin to his life”: Maxine Hong Kingston on Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books”

The Transcendentalists and Their World: Robert A. Gross on why Concord matters

Listen: “The Republic of Verse” now open to all who will hear

Cheston Knapp: Weird, feral Ralph Waldo Emerson, wily William Gass, and other influences on Up Up, Down Down

John Matteson on the “alternately repelling and attracting” electricity between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson, Agassiz, and the mind of God

Maggie Nelson: American classics that influenced the writing of The Argonauts