A book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the Pulitzer Prize-winner who has devoted her life to befriending the earth. Walker has long been a force for sanity in a chaotic world. Here she draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her political convicti…
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or s…
by Diamond, Jared M., Agee, James, Gopnik, Adam, Atwan, Robert, Menand, Louis, Hillenbrand, Laura, Ross, Alex, Judah, Tim, Chetkovich, Kathryn, Fadiman, Anne, Franzen, Jonathan, Koestenbaum, Wayne, Michaels, Leonard, Miller, Ben, (Ben P.), Moody, Rick, Mori, Kyoko, Orlean, Susan, Sacks, Oliver, Sante, Lucy, Slouka, Mark, Smith, Janna Malamud, Stern, Gerald, Williams, Tennessee, Zarin, Cynthia
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or s…
In the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays--nine never before collected--Sanders examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literar…
A collection of Sanders' finest essays in which he examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and his feeling for wildness.
In the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays--nine never before collected--Sanders examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literar…
"In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, Fahima Ife speculates on the afterlives of Black fugitivity, unsettling the historic knowledge of it while moving inside the ongoing afterlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery…
"Undeniably exquisite ... The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity."--Maria Popova, author of the blog Brain Pickings "An excellent introduction to the key issues in scien…
A new essay collection assesses today's political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society's political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life. Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her …
A new essay collection assesses today's political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society's political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life. Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her …
A new essay collection assesses today's political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society's political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life
What is freedom of conscience? -- What are we doing here? -- Theology for the moment -- The sacred, the human -- The divine -- The American scholar now -- Grace and beauty -- A proof, a test, an instruction -- The beautiful changes -- Our public conversation : how America talks …
A new essay collection assesses today's political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society's political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life.
A new essay collection assesses today's political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society's political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life.
A collection of Baldwin's essays on topics ranging from race relations in the United States--including an attack on William Faulkner for this ambivalent views about the segregated South--to the role of the writer in society, with personal accounts of such writers as Richard Wrig…