This lovely book offers John Lewis’ meditations on everything from love to public service. It’s a beautiful reminder that he represented the best of our nation.
Actor Suehyla El-Attar reads in a calm, steady voice that emphasizes the sweeping gravitas of Jo Ann Beard’s collection.
The Wreckage of My Presence is funny and bold, occasionally manic or melancholy, and always hilarious and heartfelt. Fans will turn the last page wanting more.
Lebo weaves personal stories with facts from nature, resulting in a difficult-to-classify literary and culinary exploration—the best kind, in our opinion.
To spend time with Goodbye, Again is to spend time in the private world of a creative, sensitive person who finds life inviting, beautiful and rich.
White Magic is divine, incantatory, a riddle, an illusion. In Washuta’s hands, this collection becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Anyone raised as a girl will be able to relate to something in Girlhood, and those who weren’t will marvel at this book’s transformative perspective.
The essays in Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing are funny, profane and deceptively loose, as if Lauren Hough is talking to you late at night in a quiet bar.
Throughout Spilt Milk, Courtney Zoffness uses layered storytelling to plait her life experiences with larger observations about society.
Jo Ann Beard’s essays shimmer with emotional intensity, especially when evoking the flashes of memory that come on the threshold between life and death.
Let Me Tell You What I Mean gathers 12 previously uncollected short pieces by Joan Didion, the velvet-gloved eviscerator of American culture.
In her riotous collection of essays, the creator and star of the hit TV show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” tackles one question from every angle: What is normal?
The 25 short essays in The Best American Food Writing 2020 are tackled with humor and consequence, as well as a bit of history mixed in.
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