The Best American Essays 1988

Includes essays by John Wain, Gore Vidal, Kai Erikson, Gerald Early, Annie Dillard, Cynthia Ozick, Joseph Brodsky, William H. Gass, George F. Kennan, Donald Barthelme, Edward Rothstein, Frederick Turner, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Jay Gould, and Alexander Cockburn.