Showing posts with label John Summers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Summers. Show all posts

Summers on Thoreau

John Summers, author of the excellent Every Fury on Earth, reviews a new edited collection of Thoreau at The New Republic. I thought it might be of interest to several of our readers. I love Summers's concluding paragraph:"But anyone reading these lines should check the impulse to feel superior. If Thoreau paid for his industrial exemption with disorientation, then the regularity and benignity of