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  • Allegorizings

    Jan Morris

    Hardback

    New York Times Book Review • Editors' Choice

    Jan Morris delivers her final volume, brimming with reminiscences, meditations on daily life, and mini-essays on everything from maturity to whistling to Princess Diana.

  • Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

    Claire Messud

    Hardback

    A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature.

  • Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Kurt Beals

    Paperback

    A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny Erpenbeck

  • Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays

    Alexandra Petri

    Hardback

    These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the US presidency.

  • The Inner Coast: Essays

    Donovan Hohn

    Paperback

    Prize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the best-selling author of Moby-Duck.