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William Howarth

William Howarth is a former president of the Thoreau Society and former editor-in-chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. He has taught at Princeton since 1966.

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Pursuing the White Whale

A briny exploration of Melville’s greatest work

by William Howarth | Monday, December 02, 2019
Turning the Tide

Turning the Tide

How Rachel Carson became a woman of letters

by William Howarth | Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Reading Thoreau at 200

Reading Thoreau at 200

Why is the seminal work of the great American transcendentalist held in such scorn today?

by William Howarth | Monday, June 05, 2017
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The Meandering Naturalist

by William Howarth | Friday, June 01, 2007
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Lucid Madness

A massacre of Apache women and children, and the difficulties of telling their story

by William Howarth | Monday, December 01, 2008
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Irregular Guy

The sage of Baker Street

by William Howarth | Wednesday, November 30, 2011

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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