The best American series

A selection of essays by contemporary American writers with biographical notes on each author and a list of additional notable essays.

Contains twenty American mystery and suspense short stories from 2010.

A selection of essays by contemporary American prose writers with biographical notes on each author and a list of additional notable essays.

Presents a collection of twenty American short stories, selected by guest editor Michael Chabon as the best that were published in of 2004, and includes contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional stories.

Presents a collection of twenty mystery stories, originally published in 2004 and selected by editor Joyce Carol Oates, including work by writers such as Scott Turow, Dennis Lehane, David Means, George V. Higgins, and more.

Contains twenty-one pieces of American science writing, selected as the best of 2006 by editor Atul Gawande, and includes articles from across the disciplines of biology, astronomy, anthropology, physics, and genetics.

Presents literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2011, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and alternative comics.

Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

Presents literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and alternative comics.

Presents twenty-six articles as the best American sports writing of 2003, including pieces on such figures and topics as Mia Hamm, Mickey Mantle's sons, the Washington Wizards, and corruption in professional baseball, and lists more than seventy other notable sports writing works from the year.