The 25 essays in Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies are erudite and intensely personal, deftly traversing the distance between the intellectual and the corporeal, between the meditative and the resolute. His ...

Famed for her fearless literary takedowns, Lauren Oyler adopts a softer tone in the new essay collection “No Judgment.” Credit...Miguel Porlan Supported by By Erin Somers Erin Somers is a reporter for ...

The book's collection will include "soul-bearing, funny, and provocative essays about overcoming one's limitations, and the ones others place on you, and leading a fully gay life." By Lexy Perez ...

Novelist Ann Patchett energetically resists all efforts to identify autobiographical elements in her fiction, but she has never been averse to personal writing in general: In fact, as she explains in ...

FILE - Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with Catalyst CEO Lorraine Hariton at the Catalyst Awards Conference in the Midtown Hilton Hotel on March 12, 2024, in New York.

What do you do if you hear from someone about a really difficult life moment - losing a mother, a baby, facing completely unfair treatment at work? What do you do with those stories? If you're Damon ...

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers’ wide-ranging and intimate debut essay collection, Miss Southeast—released in September from Curbstone Books—is a portrait of the artist as a young person, tracing the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new collection of three essays, "The Message." It is Coates' return to nonfiction after nearly a decade. Ta-Nehisi Coates is no stranger to tackling ...

Essay collections appear infrequently on the lists of most popular nonfiction — memoirs and historical narratives dominate conversations about the genre. Those forms of nonfiction are wonderful in ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Damon Young about That's How They Get You, his new humor anthology featuring essays by Black writers. What do you do if you hear from someone about a really difficult ...