Essays

Political Fictions

Houdini’s Box: The Art of Escape

By Adam Phillips

The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town

By Edited by Ross

My Ears Are Bent

By Joseph Mitchell

Billy Ray’s Farm: Essays from a Place Called Tula

My Misspent Youth: Essays

The Best American Essays 2000

By Alan Lightman

History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s

By Timothy Garton Ash

Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South

By Hal Crowther

The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms

By Ron Rosenbaum

A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile

By James Alan McPherson

The Peter Matthiessen Reader: A Selection of Nonfiction

By McKay Jenkins

The Time of Our Time

By Norman Mailer

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