The Best American Essays 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever."
--Publishers Weekly

“The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA,” writes guest editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction. From the Iraqi desert to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, from the beginnings of the universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, the genetic makeup of the eclectic and electric selections in The Best American Essays 2017“thrill toward complexity.”
 
The Best American Essays 2017 includes
RACHEL KAADZI GHANSAH, LAWRENCE JACKSON,
 RACHEL KUSHNER, ALAN LIGHTMAN, BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO,
WESLEY MORRIS, HEATHER SELLERS, ANDREA STUART
and others

• Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
• Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
• Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series)
• Best American Travel Writing 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
• Best American Essays 2018 (The Best American Series ®)
• The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
• Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
• Best American Essays 2016 (The Best American Series ®)
• To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
• Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction