Tag Archives: Essays

The Glorians

by Terry Tempest Williams

“I go to Terry Tempest Williams for the reasons I go to Whitman and Thoreau: to recover a capacious spirit and to rejoin the…

Winter

by Val McDermid

In this radiant work of creative nonfiction, internationally beloved novelist Val McDermid delivers a dazzling ode to a lost world, ruminating on a single…

Racebook

by Tochi Onyebuchi

From the author of Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist Riot Baby, an original memoir in essays that interrogates how identities are shaped and informed…

The Answer Is in the Wound

by Kelly Sundberg

“Lyrical and brutal, intimate and culturally relevant. I’ve never read anything like it.”—Maggie Smith An intimate, linked, lyrical essay collection focusing on the longer-lasting…

Freeman’s: Conclusions

by John Freeman

Featuring new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Rachel Khong, Louise Erdrich, and more, the tenth and final installment of the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman’s, which explores all the ways of coming to an end…

A Man of Two Faces

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide…

Why Read

by Will Self

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature

Freeman’s: Animals

by John Freeman

Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martín Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman’s explores…

The Search for the Genuine

by Jim Harrison

The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection…

Freeman’s: Change

by John Freeman

Featuring thrilling new work from Lauren Groff, Ocean Vuong, Rickey Laurentiis, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman’s explores the…