Irby is frank and unfiltered in essays on her troubled childhood, her adventures in dating and sex, and personal connection in the digital age.
The essays in Constellations will make you feel grateful to artists and writers who have transfigured their bodily suffering into a sacred creative release.
Samantha Irby writes stunningly astute, hilarious essays about topics both serious (becoming a stepmother) and less so (her slightly lazy beauty rituals).
Kisner’s essays reflect on Kierkegaard, her early Christian conversion and waiting for the subway to guide us through our own emptiness in search of fullness.
The personal essays collected in Evan James’s I’ve Been Wrong Before dazzle with words and phrases that dance with a lithesome rhythm.
In Conversations in Black, Ed Gordon has assembled a who’s who of black voices in conversation with each other, discussing the world as they see it in 2020.
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman gather dozens of celebrated writers to remember, reflect on, criticize and celebrate a century’s worth of landmark ACLU cases.
Lindy West has a wonderfully dry wit, and her biting narration makes her essays even funnier.
Leslie Jamison reads her collection of essays in a direct, matter-of-fact voice, underscored with a tinge of longing.
In her powerful collection of personal essays, Bernard reflects upon her experiences as a black woman in America.
Editor Charlotte Druckman enlists the aid of a talented brigade to articulate the state of the food world from a female perspective.
For Small Creatures Such as We is a marvel. It dazzles and comforts while making us consider our own place in the vast universe.
If every picture tells a story, it’s also true of every recipe.
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