The works collected here provide an excellent entry point into Audre Lorde’s wide-ranging yet particular concerns and capture her singular literary voice.
Macdonald’s bite-size essays offer meditations on home, placelessness, the refugee crisis and climate change, all projected through animals.
Mixing essays, poetry and images, Claudia Rankine’s new book, Just Us, asks how our notions of whiteness play out in these United States.
The essays in World of Wonders are as sparkling as an armful of glass bangles and as colorful as peacocks.
With the world teetering on the brink of the political, social, environmental and medical abyss, The Unreality of Memory is a book for our times.
Divided into comical essays and sincere meditations, Why Did I Get a B? provides an accurate depiction of how many teachers feel about their careers.
In Unspeakable Acts, editor and author Sarah Weinman has curated an excellent anthology of 13 of the best articles and essays on true crime.
Twenty contemporary crime writers leave fiction behind with essays revealing unsolvable riddles from their own lives.
Shayla Lawson’s This Is Major is a necessary study of self-enlightenment and the unique power of Black girls: We contain multitudes.
Samantha Irby is already funny on the page, but she has a special gift for comedic delivery, and her narration adds even more laughs.
Whether traveling Italy in a wheelchair or managing a classroom of Texas adolescents, Molly McCully Brown offers poetic insight about her experiences.
Beloved crime novelist Laura Lippman has now written a smart, thoughtful, sometimes vulnerable, always witty collection of essays.
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