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 --
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 --
Thoreau on ice / George Howe Colt --
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 Pollak --
Thoreau in love / James Marcus --
As for clothing / Amor Towles --
On pencils and purpose / Celeste Headlee --
House that Thoreau built / Paul Elie --
Is it worth the while? / Geoff Wisner --
Few elements of American style / Adam Gopnik --
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.