TY - BOOK AU - Als,Hilton AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The best American essays 2018 T2 - The best American series SN - 9780544817340 PY - 2018/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - American essays KW - fast KW - 21st century KW - Essays KW - lcgft N1 - "A Mariner original."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297); The Trick: Notes Toward a Theory of Plot; Marilyn Abildskov --; Prospects for Survival; Noam Chomsky --; Cadence; Paul Crenshaw --; All the Home You've Got; Edwidge Danticat --; The Other Steve Harvey; Steven Harvey --; The March on Everywhere; Leslie Jamison --; Your Friend/My Friend, Ted; Beth Uznis Johnson --; The Art at the End of the World; Heidi Julavits --; Rain Like Cotton; Jennifer Kabat --; Land of Darkness; Suki Kim --; Eat, Memory; David Wong Louie --; Five Famous Asian War Photographs; Amit Majmudar --; Notes on Lazarus; Rick Moody --; You Are the Phenomenology; Timothy O'Keefe --; In Search of Fear; Philippe Petit --; The Big Thing on His Mind; Thomas Powers --; Clothes That Don't Need You; David Salle --; Maybe the People Would Be the Times; Luc Sante --; Losing Streak; Kathryn Schulz --; My Father's Cellar; John Seabrook --; No Direction Home: The Journey of Frantz Fanon; Adam Shatz --; Lucky You; Sherry Simpson --; The Moon, the World, the Dream; Clifford Thompson --; Hannah Arendt in New York; Baron Wormser N2 - Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals ER -