The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies

Though spare, these trenchant musings are rendered expansively.

We’re Alone: Essays

By Edwidge Danticat

We’re Alone: Essays

The author’s conversational tone belies the rage felt on behalf of her Haitian homeland.

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

In probing essays, a scholar examines the contemporary Asian American experience.

Junk Shop Window

By James J. Patterson

Junk Shop Window

A personable narrator guides this winning collection.

Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century

What an astute author from the past might say about our murky present.

Getting to Know Death: A Meditation

A wise, wandering contemplation of what comes next.

Monsters

By Claire Dederer

Monsters

What to do with beautiful art from wicked artists?