The Best American Essays 2017 (the Best American Series ®)
by Leslie Jamison /
2017 / English / EPUB
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"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume,
selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and
essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and
clever."
"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume,
selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and
essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and
clever."
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--Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
“The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean
humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance,
its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee
at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and
distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA,” writes guest
editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction. From the Iraqi desert
to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, from the beginnings of the
universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, the genetic
makeup of the eclectic and electric selections in
“The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean
humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance,
its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee
at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and
distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA,” writes guest
editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction. From the Iraqi desert
to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, from the beginnings of the
universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, the genetic
makeup of the eclectic and electric selections inThe Best
American Essays 2017
The Best
American Essays 2017 “thrill toward complexity.”
“thrill toward complexity.”The Best American Essays 2017
The Best American Essays 2017 includes
includes
RACHEL KAADZI GHANSAH, LAWRENCE JACKSON,
RACHEL KAADZI GHANSAH, LAWRENCE JACKSON,
RACHEL KUSHNER, ALAN LIGHTMAN, BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO,
RACHEL KUSHNER, ALAN LIGHTMAN, BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO,
WESLEY MORRIS, HEATHER SELLERS, ANDREA STUART
WESLEY MORRIS, HEATHER SELLERS, ANDREA STUARTand others
and others
