First edition

xxvii, 323 pages ; 21 cm.

The best American series

Best American series.

Work of the witness / Sarah Aziza -- Sharing the darkness / Carolyn Forché -- Sea grape consciousness / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Shapes of grief / Christina Sharpe -- Gone for a spell / Angie Romines -- Man crossing an ice field / Laura Glen Louis -- Homeland fictions / Hannah Keziah Agustin -- Love and murder in South Africa / Eula Biss -- Pain of travelling while Palestinian / Mosab Abu Toha -- Zeppole (aka Awama) / Khalil Abusharekh -- Little slice of the moon/ Summer Hammond -- Corona / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Navel-Gazing / Namwali Serpell -- Olive branch of oblivion / Linda Kinstler -- Nesting / Jarek Steele -- On boredom / Nuar Alsadir -- Within the pretense of no pretense / Greg Jackson -- Age of hyperabundance / Laura Preston -- Literature without literature / Christian Lorentzen -- How to love animals / Matthew Denton-Edmundson -- Respect, or the missing relation / William Deresiewicz.

"A collection of the year's best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author and essayist, Jia Tolentino. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected--and most popular--of its kind. Jia Tolentino, critically acclaimed essayist, editor, and New Yorker staff writer, selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year."-- Provided by publisher

American essays -- 21st century.

American essays

2000-2099

Essay

essays.

Essays

Essays.

Tolentino, Jia,

Kupperman, Kim Dana,

9780063351592 (paperback)

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