american essays

A collection of selected essays, speeches, and meditations by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison spanning four decades of her career and exploring society, culture, and art.

Angelou talks about her most personal experiences and reveals her outlook on a wide variety of subjects.

Collection of political, spiritual, and personal interpretations by American authors, critics, commentators, activists and artists.

Contains essays deemed to be the best of 2018 and covering a wide variety of topics.

Contains essays deemed to be the best of 2017 and covering a wide variety of topics.

Presents a collection of humorous essays in which the author reflects on various moments throughout his life, relating them all back to a discussion of love, family, and what it means to accept oneself entirely.

Angelou talks about her most personal experiences and reveals her outlook on a wide variety of subjects.

Humorist David Sedaris presents twenty-two essays on such topics as his childhood neighbors who did not own a television and his job cleaning apartments in New York.

Presents a collection of essays originally published in various periodicals throughout the twentieth century, written by a number of noted writers including Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, John Updike, and many others.

"Author Ross Gay spent a year writing almost-daily essays about the things, large and small, that delight him"--Provided by publisher.