Essay Collections
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

Mere Christianity

The Collected Schizophrenias

When We Were the Kennedys

The Weight of Glory

On the Plain of Snakes

Essays

A Tale of Love and Darkness

No Time to Spare

What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Howl: a Graphic Novel

Crying in the Bathroom

The Best American Short Stories 2012

The Best American Noir of the Century

The Best American Short Stories 2011

The Colossus of New York

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

The Source of Self-regard

I Want to Burn This Place Down

The Wave in the Mind

When God Winks at You

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020

Ex Libris

The Best American Mystery Stories 2018

Ideas and Opinions

One Man's Meat

Tell My Horse

Essays: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anarchist Communism

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

One Aladdin Two Lamps

Books to Die for

The End of the Novel of Love

In Pursuit of Spenser

Things That Disappear

Uncertain Ground

Lectures on Don Quixote

Somewhere We Are Human

Far and Away

Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles

The Best American Mystery Stories 2010

Aggregated Discontent

Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited

The Geography of the Imagination

Constant Reader

Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

The Liberal Imagination

Search for the Genuine, the

Distant Reading

The Portable Emerson

Two Cheers for Democracy

Wonderlands

In Rough Country

On Native Grounds

The Book of War

The Happy Family

Abinger Harvest

Silent Catastrophes

Latin American Writers at Work

Field Work