Robert Sullivan

"A personal exploration of the history of the American West through the work of the nineteenth-century photographer Timothy O'Sullivan"--

The author offers a fringe history of the American Revolution in the Middle Colonies--New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania--detailing his one-man effort to re-enact the Colonial Army's evacuation of Brooklyn, a tattoo artist's illegal use of a colonial submarine, the life of the first American revolutionary poet, the secret history of the Delaware crossing and much more.

"An anthology of original reflections on Henry David Thoreau's life and work"-- "From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden. Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Kristen Case, George Howe Colt, Gerald Early, Paul Elie, Will Eno, Adam Gopnik, Lauren Groff, Celeste Headlee, Pico Iyer, Alan Lightman, James Marcus, Megan Marshall, Michelle Nijhuis, Zoë Pollak, Jordan Salama, Tatiana Schlossberg,...