October is the month for painted leaves,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in a wonderful essay called “Autumnal Tints” that a ...

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A new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” ...

Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s most eloquent and incisive philosophers. His derision of unjust laws in his essay on “Civil Disobedience” is still catnip 175 years later. His summons to ...

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It is not merely about opening more wallets. It is the new grammar of aspiration. Women today spend on products not only to "live deliberately" and enhance their social status in the eyes of others ...

Those of us who took four years of high school English recall reading lots of books ... by Dickens, Steinbeck, Hemingway and other literary lions and lionesses.