"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." Those famous lines from Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" have inspired generations of people — including his biographer, Laura Dassow Walls.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Culture
Some trips are more about psychic distance, like that of novelist Sherman Alexie. He's spent his whole life shuttling across cultural divides.
Lawrence Ross delved into the "Green Book," a 1957 handbook to help black motorists find safe stops along the highway, and used it to shape a contemporary road trip that celebrated black history, culture, and business.
Rebecca Solnit prepares the smartphone era for a time when we no longer know how to not know where we are.
Manal al-Sharif on how the most transgressive thing a Saudi woman could do was learn to drive.
We take road trips and endless highways for granted, but there are other countries where people can pay a heavy price just for getting behind a wheel.
Journalism professor David Dennis on how popular conspiracy theories in the black community find their roots in abuses that actually happened.
Father-daughter beatboxers Nicole Paris and Ed Cage take vocal percussion from the cradle to the stage.
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