“The Big Cats,” Esquire, April 1961
“The Draft Card Gesture,” Commentary, February 1968
“Notes from the Century Before,” The Paris Review, Winter 1968
“On Not Being a Jew,” Commentary, April 1968
“The Threshold and the Jolt of Pain,” The Village Voice, October 17, 1968
“The Courage of Turtles,” The Village Voice, December 12, 1968
“The Elephant Trainer and the Man on Stilts,” The Village Voice, April 17, 1969
“Why this Extra Violence,” The Village Voice, May 8, 1969
“Knights and Squires: For Love of the Tugs,” The Village Voice, May 29, 1969
“The Problem of the Golden Rule,” Commentary, August 1969
“Blitzes and Holding Actions,” The Village Voice, October 16, 1969
“Books, Movies, the News,” Book World, November 9, 1969
“Home is Two Places,” Commentary, February 1970
“The Circus in 1970,” The Village Voice, April 9, 1970
“The Moose on the Wall,” New American Review, No. 9, April 1970
“Americana by the Acre,” Harper’s, October 1970
“Meatcutters Are a Funny Bunch,” The Village Voice, December 17, 1970
“The Portland Freight Run,” The Atlantic, February 1971
“The War in the Woods,” Harper’s, February 1971
“Splendid, with Trumpets,” The Village Voice, April 8, 1971
“Two Clowns,” Life, April 25, 1971
“The Assassination Impulse,” The Village Voice, May 27, 1971
“Of Cows and Cambodia,” The Atlantic, July 1971
“The Soul of the Tiger,” Esquire, July 1971
“Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion,” The New Yorker, August 7, 1971
“Jane Street’s Samurai,” The Village Voice, November 25, 1971
“Nobody Writes Stories about Unicorns,” The Village Voice, December 16, 1971
“Passions and Tensions,” The Village Voice, February 2, 1972
“On the Question of Dogs,” The Village Voice, March 30, 1972
“City Rat,” Audience, March-April 1972
“Women Aflame,” The Village Voice, April 27, 1972
“Marriage, Fame, Power, Success,” The Village Voice, May 18, 1972
“In the Toils of the Law,” The Atlantic, June 1972
“Looking for Wilderness,” The Atlantic, August 1972
“Thoughts on Returning to the Mountain…,” The Village Voice, November, 1972
“Heart’s Desire,” Audience, November-December 1972
“Howling Back at the Wolves,” Saturday Review, December 1972
“Wall Maps and Woodpeckers,” The Village Voice, January 25, 1973
“Fred King on the Allagash,” Audience, January-February 1973
“Mountain Towers,” The Village Voice, February 15, 1973
“At Pinkham Notch,” The Village Voice, March 15, 1973
“Wildlands in Vermont,” The Village Voice, March 22, 1973
“In a Lair with a Bear,” Sports Illustrated, March 26, 1973
“Tricks, Innocence, Pathos, Perfection,” The Village Voice, May 10, 1973
“The Young Must Do the Healing,” New York Times Magazine, June 10, 1973
“Other Lives,” Harper’s, July 1973
“A Run of Bad Luck,” Newsweek, July 30, 1973
“Writing Wild,” New York Times Book Review, September 23, 1973
“That Gorgeous Great Novelist,” The Village Voice, November 15, 1973
“But Where Is Home,” New York Times Book Review, December 23, 1973
“A Mountain with a Wolf on It,” Sports Illustrated, January 14, 1974
“Where Have All the Heroes Gone,” New York Times Magazine, March 10, 1974
“Where the Action Is,” New York Times Book Review, October 13, 1974
“Nine Home Truths about Writing,” The Village Voice, January 20, 1975
“The Tug of Life at the End of the Leash,” Harper’s, February 1975
“Big Frog, Very Small Pond,” Sports Illustrated, March 3, 1975
“The Survival of the Newt,” New York Times Magazine, July 27, 1975
“Apocalypse Enough,” Not Man Apart, July 1975
“A Paradox among Us,” Harper’s, January 1976
“Southern Mansions,” Travel & Leisure, February 1976
“What I Think, What I Am,” New York Times Book Review, June 27, 1976
“Cairo Observed,” Harper’s, June 1976
“At Large in East Africa,” Harper’s, August 1976
“The Fragile Writer,” New York Times Book Review, December 12, 1976
“The Ridge-Slope Fox and the Knife-Thrower,” Harper’s, January 1977
“Do Writers Stay Home,” New York Times Book Review, May 22, 1977
“Without American Express,” New York Times Book Review, June 4, 1978
“Into Eritrea: Africa’s Red Sea War,” Harper’s, July 1978
“Unsilent Spring,” The Nation, May 26, 1979
“Gabriel, Who Wanted to Know,” The New England Review, Summer 1979
“Tugs,” Harper’s, December 1979
“Johnny Appleseed,” American Heritage, December-January 1979
“Being Between Books,” New York Times Book Review, October 28, 1979
“December Song,” The Nation, December 6, 1980
“America Was Promises (Still),” The Nation, February 21, 1981
“Making of a Writer,” New York Times Book Review, October 4, 1981
“Gods, Masks, and Horses,” Vanity Fair, July 1983
“Anchorage,” Vanity Fair, October 1983
“Up the Black to Chalkyitsik,” House and Garden, June 1984
“Hail the Anhinga,” The Nation, June 9, 1984
“Memories of Circuses Past,” The Nation, March 9, 1985
“In Okefenokee,” National Geographic Traveler, Spring 1985
“Nectar Feeding,” The Nation, July 20, 1985
“In Praise of John Muir,” Antaeus, Autumn 1986
“Three Trains Across Canada,” Travel & Leisure, March 1987
“Up with Spring,” The Nation, June 6, 1987
“Treasured Places,” Life, July 1987
“Summer Skunks,” The Nation, August 29, 1987
“Christmases Past,” The Nation, December 26, 1987
“Heaven and Nature,” Harper’s, March 1988
“Arabia Felix,” Interview magazine, May 1988
“The Indispensable Thoreau,” American Heritage, July 1988
“Learning to Eat Soup,” Antaeus, Autumn 1988
“The Hunger in Manhattan Life,” Harper’s, June 1989
“Jubilant Spring,” The Nation, June 19, 1989
“A World Worth Saving,” Life, October 1989
“O Wyoming,” Outside, October 1989
“Tolstoyan Tide,” The Nation, May 14, 1990
“Shh, Our Writers Are Sleeping,” Esquire, July 1990
“On Getting One’s Footing” (reprinted from “Anxious Dreams,” Manchester Guardian, * January 20), Harper’s, August 1990
“Roadless Regions,” Literary Outtakes, September 1990
“Passing Views,” Harper’s, January 1991
“Good Trips, Bad Trips,” Outside, April 1991
“The Best Idea,” Life, May 1991
“Spring Medley,” The Nation, June 10, 1991
“Holy Fools,” The Nation, September 16, 1991
“Everybody Comes to Belize,” Outside, February 1992
“Meat for the Old Man,” Outside, May 1992
“Christmas Observed,” New York Times Magazine, December 20, 1992
“To the Point,” Harper’s, March 1993
“Skin and Bones,” The Nation, May 3, 1993
“The Unknown Thoreau,” The Nation, June 7, 1993
“Nature’s Seesaw,” Vermont, May 1994 (also in Land’s End Catalogue, September 1993)
“All This Good World,” Manoa, June 1994
“Strange Perfume,” Esquire, June 1994
“The View from 61,” New York Times Magazine, November 27, 1994
“Brightness Visible,” Harper’s, January 1995
“Surge Time at the Bottom of the Earth,” Outside, March 1995
“Scenes from a Forty-Year War,” The Nation, April 10, 1995
“Like a Saul Bellow Character,” Salmagundi, Spring 1995
“Stepping Back,” New York Times Magazine, November 12, 1995
“Books that Need Authors,” The Nation, November 13, 1995
“The Daring Art of Rockwell Kent,” Civilization, January 1996
“Dying Argots,” Harper’s, January 1996
“Running Mates,” Hungry Mind Review, November 1996 (also Spring 1999)
“Generational Pioneer,” New York Times Magazine, December 8, 1996
“A Last Look Around,” Civilization, February 1997
“The Peaceable Kingdom,” Preservation, March 1997 (also in Vermont, June 1999)
“Wild Things,” Granta, Spring 1997
“Samos, Reflections on Love, and Love Lost, On a Greek Island,” Islands, June 1997
“Henry James and Porky Pig,” The Nation, June 30, 1997
“The Sage of Selborne,” The Yale Review, July 1997
“Spring Comes to the Kingdom,” Vermont Woodlands, Spring 1998
“I Can See,” Granta, Summer 1998
“India,” River City, Summer 1998
“Vermont Journal,” American Scholar, Summer 1998
“Vermont: Suite of Seasons,” National Geographic, September 1998
“Lost Between Burma and Tibet,” Outside, October 1998
"Craft and Obsession: An Interview with Edward Hoagland," The Hungry Mind Review, Spring 1999
“On the Lure of Water,” Sierra, May 1999
“Writers Afoot,” American Scholar, Summer 1999
“That Sense of Falling,” Preservation, October 1999
“Writers Afoot,” Harper’s, October 1999
“Natural Excursions,” Orion, Summer 2000
“Fire,” American Scholar, Autumn 2000
“Natural Light,” Harper’s, October 2000
“Vermont’s Civil Union,” Washington Post, late October 2000
“Secrets of the Stutter,” U.S. News and World Report, April 2, 2001
“Smirko, Smirko, Smirko!” Yankee, June 2001
“Two Kinds of People,” Worth, November 2001
“Circus Music,” Harper’s, February 2002
“Ansel Adams at 100,” Aperture, Spring 2002
“John Muir’s Alaskan Rhapsody,” American Scholar, Spring 2002
“Blind Faith,” Food and Wine, April 2002
“Diaries,” The Paris Review, Summer 2002
“Not Even the Giant Squid,” Harper’s, November 2002
“Sex and the River Styx,” Harper’s, January 2003
“The American Dissident,” Harper’s, August 2003
“Immersion Teaching,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 13, 2004
“Small Silences,” Harper’s, July 2004
“Journals,” American Scholar, Autumn 2004
“Endgame: Meditations on a Diminishing World,” Harper's, June 2007
"Curtain Calls," Harper's, March 2009
"Journals '04, '05," The Seattle Review, Fall 2009
"Barley and Yaks," Orion, November 2009
"Last Call," Harper's, May 2010
"Spaced Out in the City," The American Scholar, Summer 2010
"When I Was Blind," Portland Magazine, Summer 2011
"The Top of the Continent," Portland Magazine, Winter 2012
