Transcendentalists

A Complete Life: Miss Fuller by April Bernard

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Emerson, Miss Fuller, April Bernard, Thoreau, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Books, Transcendentalists, Feminism, Nineteenth Century, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

In Miss Fuller, April Bernard takes a speculative scalpel to the life of Margaret Fuller, offering a narrative of her experiences that shines a harsh and unbecoming light on the male transcendentalists.

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Founding Fathers: Washington and Ives

Albert Imperato | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Baltimore Symphony, New York Philharmonic, George Washington, Gustav Mahler, Charles Ives, Jeremy Denk, Founding Fathers, Transcendentalists, Leonard Bernstein, Alan Gilbert, Hilary Hahn, Books News
Albert Imperato

In a strange twist of timing, I found myself reading Ron Chernow's new biography of George Washington at the same time that I just happened to be reading Jan Swafford's Charles Ives: A Life with Music.

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Spirituality And Religion Are Not Mutually Exclusive

Scott Perlo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalists, Judaism, Maimonides, Spirituality, Torah, Religious Beliefs, Individual Religion, Religion News
Scott Perlo

Central to human greatness is our capacity to carry two ideas in tension. Enough with the idea that religion and spirituality are exclusive: Let us fill ourselves with both.

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Off The Grid: 8 Books On Living Outside The System

Los Angeles Times | Susan Salter Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Electricity, Off the Grid, Books, Environmentalism, Conservation, Peter Stark, Transcendentalists, Escapism, Reading, Utopia, Thoreau, Walden, Books News

Although books about carving out your own piece of the pie have been written ever since the Transcendentalists took issue with the direction that Amer...

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Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Review of Books, Literature, Damion Searls, Radio Conversation, Henry David Thoreau, Nature, Brown University, Proust, Green, Nyrb, Transcendentalists, Christopher Lydon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Books News
Christopher Lydon

Damion Searls has found and freed the lean, shapely and modern American classic inside the very definition of a "baggy monster." Henry David Thoreau'...

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Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF

Dean Sluyter | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Advertisements for Myself, Zen, Poetry, Franny and Zooey, Meditation, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anatta, Nirvana, Donald Rumsfeld, World Wrestling Federation, Self-Inquiry, New York Review of Books, Gospel of Thomas, Norman Mailer, Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Advaita, J.D. Salinger, Wwf, Mohandas Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Eastern Wisdom, Emily Dickinson, Buddhism, Transcendentalists, Amherst, Dzogchen, Healthy Living News
Dean Sluyter

When the dream of self dissolves, we awake and see that the true church is wherever we are.

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