Essays

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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.

  • Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

    Leah Myers

    Hardback

    A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore and the search for identity in a fierce debut work of personal history

  • Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

    J. W. Ocker

    Paperback

    Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical!

    Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction.

  • Featured

    Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive

    James Parker

    Hardback

    From the vertiginously talented Atlantic staff writer James Parker, a collection of uproarious prose odes that show how to find gratitude in unexpected places

  • 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.