The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer
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A collection of nonfiction pieces from Geoff Dyer.
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The Contemporary American Essay, edited by Phillip Lopate
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A great trilogy of American essays concludes with the modern era.
Read MoreHomo Irrealis by André Aciman
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A collection of essays by the author of “Call Me By Your Name.”
Read MoreThin Places by Jordan Kisner
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A debut collection of essays exploring the places where two worlds touch.
Read MoreThink, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov
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A meticulously contextualized volume just brimming with supporting information.
Read MoreCoventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk
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Cusk’s essays create her own roadmap to making sense of her intentional disbelief both in her life and in her stories.
Read MoreTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
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The author explores the construction of her identity during the Internet’s own infancy.
Read MoreThe Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies by Robert Kirk
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There’s a deep, humanist value to be found in Kirk’s investigations.
Read MoreWhite by Bret Easton Ellis
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If Ellis is obsessed with anything as a craftsman, it’s voice.
Read MoreThe End of the End of the Earth: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
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Communicates a compelling voice from a speaker who’s well-intentioned, well-studied and considerate, but hopelessly aloof.
Read MoreCrucible: The President's First Year
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An insight-filled guide for future presidents on the most important issues facing a new administration in their first year.
Read MoreThe Tools We Need
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The panic that arose across the country as the incredible reality of a Trump presidency began to sink in hit the book world with particular force. In his temperament, style and values, the new president seems almost purpose-built to oppose everything Barack Obama has stood for and accomplished. (The only things they appear to have in common are a love of golf and an on again-off again friendship with Hillary Clinton.) In few aspects is the gulf wider than in their respective attitudes to reading.
Read MoreMarilynne Robinson's Psalms and Prophecy
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Marilynne Robinson began her novel Housekeeping while completing a dissertation on Shakespeare as a graduate student. Initially she wrote what now form the book’s preliminary scenes as exercises in extended metaphors. Evoking her childhood home of Sandpoint, Idaho, a lake town in the panhandle of the state (in the book she renames it Fingerbone) and remotely drawing off her ancestors, Robinson simply wanted to see if she could still write something other than scholastic essays. Also, she has said, she wanted to impress her friends.
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