A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.
"Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in The Best American Essays 2019. This searching, necessary collection grapples with what has preoccupied us in the past year-sexual politics, race, violence, invasive technologies-and yet, in reading for the book, Solnit also found "how discovery can be a deep pleasure."
| ISBN: | 9781328465801 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 2019 |
| Author: | Rabih Alameddine, Michelle Alexander, Heather Altfeld, Mario Alejandro Ariza, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Camille T Dungy |
| Publisher: | Mariner Books an imprint of HMH Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | The Best American Series |
| Genres: |
Literary essays |