Excursions Near and Far. Wild Apples / Lauren Groff ; My Guidebook to Japan / Pico Iyer ; Walden and the Black Quest for Nature, or My Summer Vacation with Big Sis / Gerald Early ; Twenty-Four Hours on Pea Island / Jordan Salama ; Fragility of Solitude / Rafia Zakaria ; My Failure / Mona Simpson ; Without / Megan Marshall --
Deliberate Living. To a Slower Life / Alan Lightman ; Walden as an Art / Robert Sullivan ; Year of Not Living Thickly / Sherry Turkle ; If I Had Loved Her Less / Jennifer Finney Boylan ; Following Thoreau / Kristen Case
Directions of His Dreams.
Thoreau on Ice / George Howe Colt ; "The Record of My Love": Thoreau and the Art of Science / Michelle Nijhuis ; Apples of His Eye / A.O. Scott ;You Bring the Weather with You / Zoe Pollack ; Thoreau in Love / James Marcus --
Practicalities. As for Clothing / Amor Towles ; On Pencils and Purpose / Celeste Headlee ; House That Thoreau Built / Paul Elie ; Is It Worth the While? / Geoff Wisner ; A Few Elements of American Style / Adam Goonik --
At Walden. Concord Is a Kind of Word / Will Eno ; Dolittle's Rebellion / Stacey Vanek Smith ; Ice, for the Time Being ./ Tatiana Schlossberg ; Walden at Midnight: Three Walks with Thoreau / Wen Stephenson ; Simplify, Simplify / Sandra Boynton.