The Best American Essays 2019
Robert Atwan
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The Best American Essays 2019
Robert Atwan
About This Book
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."
The Best American Essays 2019 includes Michelle Alexander, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Jean Guerrero, Elizabeth Kolbert, Terese Marie Mailhot, Jia Tolentino, and others.
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Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2018
SELECTED BY ROBERT ATWAN
Necessary Evil, The New York Times Magazine, April 8
Scotty’s: A Brief History of Expatriate Time, Colorado Review
In Freud’s Shadow, Granta, #145
The Something I Am Telling You, Ploughshares, Winter
Pergelation, The Blue Mesa Review, #38
How to Lose Your Brother, New Letters, 85/1
The Girls, The Baltimore Review, 2018
Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister, The New Yorker, November 17
Los Perdidos, River Teeth, Fall
Leaving the Paper, Politics/Letters, September 17
Commensuals: Theme and Variations, The Georgia Review, Fall
How to Build an Intellectual, Slice, Spring/Summer
Thank You for “Condescending,” The New York Times Magazine, September 2
Into the Darkness We Go, Alpinist, Summer
Fragments from a War-Torn Childhood, Guernica, September 12
Thoughts Made Visible, Lapham’s Quarterly, Winter
Watchwords, The Literary Review, Spring
Power Lines Are Burning the West, The Atlantic online, May
An Anatomy of Lostness, World Literature Today, November/December
Factory Girl, The Cincinnati Review, Summer
The Death of a Once Great City, Harper’s Magazine, July
My Life Cleanse: One Month Inside L.A.’s Cult of Betterness, GQ online, November 1
Why Data Is Never Raw, The New Atlantis, Summer/Fall
A Deliberate Thing I Said Once to My Skin, The Threepenny Review, Fall
You Don’t Have to Be Here, Creative Nonfiction, Fall
Report, Crazy Horse, Fall
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Prism, Winter
Overlooking Guantánamo, New England Review, 39/4
On Worry, Colorado Review, Fall/Winter
Wild and Domestic, Orion, Summer
Incarcerated Language, The Yale Review, October
White Hard Hat, Solstice, Fall
The Robots Are Coming, and They Want Your Job, Vice, October
Slaves of Dance, Under the Sun, #6
The Unflappable, Southwest Review, ...