Essays
The Best American Essays 2020
2020·336 pages
Literary essays on uncertainty, grief, race, and empathy, selected by André Aciman from a year’s finest American writing.
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Literary essays on uncertainty, grief, race, and empathy, selected by André Aciman from a year’s finest American writing.
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A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020 . "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude, its grace." The essays Aciman selecte...
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Death, illness, and body-horror themes; historical atrocity references
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LGBTQ+ contributors; identity themes may appear in select essays
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