Caleb Smith is a professor of English and American studies at Yale University. His books include The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press, 2009) and The Oracle and the Curse (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Caleb Smith
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Thoreau in Good Faith
The writer went to Walden to reorient his world, so that the woods, rather than the town, centered his spiritual map.
