In class, learn to appreciate how difficult it may be to listen to your professor. Close your browsers and lower your laptop screen. Next time a friend hits you with the classic Yale nicety “let’s get ...

Richard Higgins, a former Globe reporter, is author of “Thoreau’s God” and “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” On April 19, ...

Concord, Massachusetts, has a vast literary past, being home to talents such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau ... exponent of New England transcendentalism, would ...