Essays

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  Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays

  Alexandra Petri

  Paperback

  These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the US presidency.

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  Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

  Adrienne Rich, Eula Biss

  Paperback

  The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.

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  Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays

  Jesse McCarthy

  Hardcover

  A supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.

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  Allegorizings

  Jan Morris

  Hardcover

  New York Times Book Review • Editors' Choice

  Jan Morris delivers her final volume, brimming with reminiscences, meditations on daily life, and mini-essays on everything from maturity to whistling to Princess Diana.

• Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

  Jenny Erpenbeck, Kurt Beals

  Paperback

  A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny Erpenbeck