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Title | The Best American Essays 2020 |
Author | André Aciman , Robert Atwan |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | November 3, 2020 |
Category | New Release |
Total Pages | 336 pages |
ISBN | B081TV2K94 |
Book Rating | 4.7 out of 5 from 5 reviews |
Language | EN, ES, BE, DA ,DE , NL and FR |
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. “An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude, its grace.” The essays Aciman selected center on people facing moments of deep uncertainty, searching for a greater truth. From a Black father’s confrontation of his son’s illness, to a divorcée’s transcendent experience with strangers, to a bartender grieving the tragic loss of a friend, these stories are a master class not just in essay writing but in empathy, artfully imbuing moments of hardship with understanding and that elusive grace. The Best American 2020 Essays includes RABIH ALAMEDDINE • BARBARA EHRENREICH • LESLIE JAMISON JAMAICA KINCAID • ALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICH • A. O. SCOTT • JERALD WALKER • STEPHANIE POWELL WATTS and others
The Best American Essays 2020 by Andr Aciman
Title | The Best American Essays 2020 |
Author | Andr Aciman |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Release Date | 2020-10-06 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 9780358359913 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit
Title | The Best American Essays 2019 |
Author | Rebecca Solnit |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2019-10-01 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 288 |
ISBN | 9781328467119 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. “Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship,” contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in The Best American Essays 2019. This searching, necessary collection grapples with what has preoccupied us in the past year—sexual politics, race, violence, invasive technologies—and yet, in reading for the book, Solnit also found “how discovery can be a deep pleasure.” The Best American Essays 2019 includes Michelle Alexander, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Jean Guerrero, Elizabeth Kolbert, Terese Marie Mailhot, Jia Tolentino, and others.
The Best American Essays 2017 by Leslie Jamison
Title | The Best American Essays 2017 |
Author | Leslie Jamison |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2017-10-03 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 9780544817333 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever." --Publishers Weekly "The essay is political--and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative--because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust--faith and doubt--that structures its DNA," writes guest editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction. From the Iraqi desert to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, from the beginnings of the universeto the aftermath of a suicide attempt, the genetic makeup of the eclectic and electric selections inThe Best American Essays 2017 "thrill toward complexity." The Best American Essays 2017 includes RACHEL KAADZI GHANSAH, LAWRENCE JACKSON, RACHEL KUSHNER, ALAN LIGHTMAN, BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO, WESLEY MORRIS, HEATHER SELLERS, ANDREA STUART and others
The Best American Essays 2018 by Hilton Als
Title | The Best American Essays 2018 |
Author | Hilton Als |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Release Date | 2018-10-02 |
Category | |
Total Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 9780544817340 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The award-winning critic and essayist Hilton Als picks the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.
The Best American Essays 2013 by Robert Atwan
Title | The Best American Essays 2013 |
Author | Robert Atwan |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2013-10-08 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 352 |
ISBN | 9780544105744 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Selected and introduced by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times best-selling author of Wild and the writer of the celebrated column “Dear Sugar,” this collection is a treasure trove of fine writing and thought-provoking essays.
The Best American Food Writing 2020 by J. Kenji López-Alt
Title | The Best American Food Writing 2020 |
Author | J. Kenji López-Alt |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Cooking |
Total Pages | 272 |
ISBN | 9780358346494 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The year’s top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. “These are stories about culture,” writes J. Kenji López-Alt in his introduction. “About how food shapes people, neighborhoods, and history.” This year’s Best American Food Writing captures the food industry at a critical moment in history — from the confrontation of abusive kitchen culture, to the disappearance of the supermarkets, to the rise and fall of celebrity chefs, to the revolution of baby food. Spanning from New York’s premier restaurants to the chile factories of New Mexico, this collection lifts a curtain on how food arrives on our plates, revealing extraordinary stories behind what we eat and how we live. THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING 2020 INCLUDES BURKHARD BILGER, KAT KINSMAN, LAURA HAYES, TAMAR HASPEL, SHO SPAETH, TIM MURPHY and others
Best Canadian Essays 2020 by Sarmishta Subramanian
Title | Best Canadian Essays 2020 |
Author | Sarmishta Subramanian |
Publisher | Biblioasis |
Release Date | 2020-10-20 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 186 |
ISBN | 9781771963671 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The twelfth installment of Best Canadian Essays speaks with striking prescience to our contemporary moment. “This book—like most that have found their way into the world this fall—began life in the Before Times,” writes editor Sarmishta Subramanian. Written and first published by leading magazines and journals in 2019, the essays selected here speak with striking prescience to our contemporary moment. From health concerns both global and individual; to decisions about how much of ourselves we should share, online and in person; to surveillance capitalism and cancel culture, public and private concerns intertwine throughout Best Canadian Essays 2020. Just as our current challenges in public health, policing, and justice require researchers, lawmakers, and citizen groups, writes Subramanian, they also require writers. Here she presents sixteen, “essaying in the French sense of the word to think it through.” Featuring work by: James Brooke-Smith • Larissa Diakiw • Jenny Ferguson • Wayne Grady • Alexandra Kimball • Amorina Kingdon • Andy Lamey • Michael LaPointe • Benjamin Leszcz • Alanna Mitchell • Alexandra Molotkow • Jeremy Narby • Andrew Nikiforuk • Michelle Orange • Christina Sharpe • Carl Wilson
The Best American Essays Of The Century by Joyce Carol Oates
Title | The Best American Essays of the Century |
Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | Perfection Learning |
Release Date | 2001-10 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 596 |
ISBN | 1606869825 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age as experienced by the nation's foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists.
The Best American Essays 2016 by Jonathan Franzen
Title | The Best American Essays 2016 |
Author | Jonathan Franzen |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2016-10-04 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 354 |
ISBN | 9780544812178 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The National Book Award–winning author compiles a “thought-provoking volume” of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others (Publishers Weekly). As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 “was whether an author had taken a risk.” The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one’s family. What’s gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed—from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling’s autism and relationships between students and college professors. The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.
The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 by Sid Holt
Title | The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 |
Author | Sid Holt |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Release Date | 2021-01-05 |
Category | Language Arts & Disciplines |
Total Pages | 186 |
ISBN | 9780231552448 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding writing, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism. The anthology features excerpts from major projects that challenge American certitudes: the Washington Post Magazine’s “Prison” issue, detailing the scope of mass incarceration, and the New York Times Magazine’s “The 1619 Project,” which recenters the nation’s history around slavery and its legacies. It includes extraordinary globe-spanning journalism, including pieces on the genocide against the Rohingya (New York Times Magazine) and the unintended consequences of a dengue fever vaccine (Fortune). Pamela Colloff details prosecutors’ reliance on an untrustworthy jailhouse informant (New York Times Magazine in partnership with ProPublica), and a ProPublica series investigates the disaster that befell the USS Fitzgerald. The anthology showcases the work of remarkable stylists, including Jia Tolentino’s cultural commentary (New Yorker) and Ligaya Mishan’s columns on food and culture (T: The New York Times Style Magazine). Columns by s.e. smith consider disability (Catapult), and the DeafBlind poet John Lee Clark writes about art he can touch (Poetry). Jordan Kisner visits a Martha Washington–themed debutante ball in Texas near the Mexican border for The Believer, and Jacob Baynham offers a moving portrait of his father-in-law (Georgia Review). Arundhati Roy excoriates the increasing authoritarianism of Modi’s India (The Nation in partnership with Type Media Center). The anthology concludes with Jonathan Escoffery’s short story of homesickness for Jamaica, “Under the Ackee Tree” (Paris Review).
The Best American Short Stories 2020 by Curtis Sittenfeld
Title | The Best American Short Stories 2020 |
Author | Curtis Sittenfeld |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 400 |
ISBN | 9781328484109 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year’s edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 INCLUDES T. C. BOYLE • EMMA CLINE • MARY GAITSKILL ANDREA LEE • ELIZABETH McCRACKEN • ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH • KEVIN WILSON and others
The Best American Essays 2009 by Mary Oliver
Title | The Best American Essays 2009 |
Author | Mary Oliver |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Release Date | 2009 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 202 |
ISBN | 0618982728 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals
The Best American Essays 2011 by Edwidge Danticat
Title | The Best American Essays 2011 |
Author | Edwidge Danticat |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2011-10-04 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 275 |
ISBN | 9780547678436 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others. In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form—a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today’s spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, “when we insert our ‘I’ (our eye) to search deeper into someone, something, or ourselves, we are always risking a yawn or a slap, indifference or disdain.” Here are intimate personal essays that examine a range of vital topics, from cancer diagnosis to police brutality, and from devastating natural disasters to the dilemmas of modern medicine. All in all, “the brave voices behind these experiences keep the pages turning” (Kirkus Reviews). The Best American Essays 2011 includes entries by Hilton Als, Katy Butler, Toi Derricotte, Christopher Hitchens, Pico Iyer, Charlie LeDuff, Chang-Rae Lee, Lia Purpura, Zadie Smith, Reshma Memon Yaqub, and others.
The Best American Sports Writing 2020 by Jackie MacMullan
Title | The Best American Sports Writing 2020 |
Author | Jackie MacMullan |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Sports & Recreation |
Total Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 9780358181835 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year. For over twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Each year, the series editor and guest editor curate a truly exceptional collection. The only shared traits among all these diverse styles, voices, and stories are the extraordinarily high caliber of writing, and the pure passion they tap into that can only come from sports.
The Best American Essays 1995 by Jamaica Kincaid
Title | The Best American Essays 1995 |
Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 1995 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 263 |
ISBN | 0395691834 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals
False Papers by André Aciman
Title | False Papers |
Author | André Aciman |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Release Date | 2011-04-01 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 288 |
ISBN | 0374707707 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Essays on memory by the author of Our of Egypt "We remember not because we have something we wish to go back to, nor because memories are all we have. We remember because memory is our most intimate, most familiar gesture. Most people are convinced I love Alexandria. In truth, I love remembering Alexandria. For it is not Alexandria that is beautiful. Remembering is beautiful." Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a witty, surprising series of linked essays that ponder the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, through his brief stay in Europe, and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
The Captain S Death Bed Other Essays by Virginia Woolf
Title | The Captain s Death Bed Other Essays |
Author | Virginia Woolf |
Publisher | e-artnow |
Release Date | 2017-12-06 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 410 |
ISBN | 9788027236152 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. "This book contains...the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading" (Katherine Anne Porter). Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
The Best American Travel Writing 2020 by Jason Wilson
Title | The Best American Travel Writing 2020 |
Author | Jason Wilson |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Travel |
Total Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 9780358362043 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The year’s best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane. An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2019, collected by esteemed guest editor Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind and Underland. The Best American Travel Writing gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recognize this annual volume as the gold standard for excellence in travel writing.
Thin Places by Jordan Kisner
Title | Thin Places |
Author | Jordan Kisner |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Release Date | 2020-03-03 |
Category | Literary Collections |
Total Pages | 272 |
ISBN | 9780374719388 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Lit Hub | Chicago Review | Ms. Magazine March pick A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America’s search for meaning When Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was, she writes, “just naturally reverent,” a fact that didn’t change when she—much to her own confusion—lost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: “You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga, talk radio, neoatheism, CrossFit, cleanses, football, the academy, the American Dream, Beyoncé.” A curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner’s work. Her celebrated essay “Thin Places” (Best American Essays 2016), about an experimental neurosurgery developed to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, asks how putting the neural touchpoint of the soul on a pacemaker may collide science and psychology with philosophical questions about illness, the limits of the self, and spiritual transformation. How should she understand the appearance of her own obsessive compulsive disorder at the very age she lost her faith? Intellectually curious and emotionally engaging, the essays in Thin Places manage to be both intimate and expansive, illuminating an unusual facet of American life, as well as how it reverberates with the author’s past and present preoccupations.
Eight White Nights by André Aciman
Title | Eight White Nights |
Author | André Aciman |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Release Date | 2010-02-02 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 9781429934800 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
A LUSHLY ROMANTIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Eight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: "I am Clara." Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the same cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly and won't hazard a move. The tension between them builds gradually, marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust. As André Aciman explores their emotions with uncompromising accuracy and sensuous prose, they move both closer together and farther apart, culminating on New Year's Eve in a final scene charged with magic and the promise of renewal. Call Me by Your Name, Aciman's debut novel, established him as one of the finest writers of our time, an expert at the most sultry depictions of longing and desire. As The Washington Post Book World wrote, "The beauty of Aciman's writing and the purity of his passions should place this extraordinary first novel within the canon of great romantic love stories for everyone." Aciman's piercing and romantic new novel is a brilliant performance from a master prose stylist.
The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2020 by John Joseph Adams
Title | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 |
Author | John Joseph Adams |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release Date | 2020-11-03 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 432 |
ISBN | 9781328618863 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon. Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and Diana Gabaldon, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.