To Perceive Is to Suffer (The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison)
Leslie Jamison's extraordinary essay collection combines the personal essay, reportage, cultural criticism, and philosophy to examine human empathy. [Read More]
Essays
The House of Wisdom, Sacked (Letter to a Future Lover by Ander Monson)
Ander Monson's eclectic essays explore ephemera discovered in libraries and beyond. [Read More]
No Common Reader (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman)
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998) collects eighteen [Read More]
On Truthiness and Beauty* (The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal)
How far are essayists allowed to bend the truth before they’re no longer writing nonfiction? In [Read More]
In a D’Agata’s Vida (Halls of Fame by John D’Agata)
Clever? Sure. But John D’Agata’s collection of essays Halls of Fame (Graywolf) makes great use [Read More]
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