Book Details
Edited by New York Times columnist and best-selling author David Brooks, this classic collection of the year’s best includes thought-provoking essays from Marcia Angell, Miah Arnold, Mark Doty, Joseph Epstein, Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, Francine Prose, Lauren Slater, Sandra Tsing Loh, Jose Antonio Vargas, and others.
Contents
Foreword: Of Topics by Robert Atwan
Introduction by David Brooks
BENJAMIN ANASTAS. The Foul Reign of “Self-Reliance”
from The New York Times Magazine
MARCIA ANGELL. The Crazy State of Psychiatry
from The New York Review of Books
MIAH ARNOLD. You Owe Me
from Michigan Quarterly Review
GEOFFREY BENT. Edward Hopper and the Geometry of Despair
from Boulevard
ROBERT BOYERS. A Beauty
from Agni
DUDLEY CLENDINEN. The Good Short Life
from The New York Times Sunday Review
PAUL COLLINS. Vanishing Act
from Lapham’s Quarterly
MARK DOTY. Insatiable
from Granta
MARK EDMUNDSON. Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?
from The Oxford American
JOSEPH EPSTEIN. Duh, Bor-ing
from Commentary
JONATHAN FRANZEN. Farther Away
from The New Yorker
MALCOLM GLADWELL. Creation Myth
from The New Yorker
PETER HESSLER. Dr. Don
from The New Yorker
EWA HRYNIEWICZ-YARBROUGH. Objects of Affection
from Ploughshares
GARRET KEIZER. Getting Schooled
from Harper’s Magazine
DAVID J. LAWLESS. My Father/My Husband
from Prism
ALAN LIGHTMAN. The Accidental Universe
from Harper’s Magazine
SANDRA TSING LOH. The Bitch Is Back
from The Atlantic
KEN MURRAY. How Doctors Die
from Zocalo Public Square
FRANCINE PROSE. Other Women
from Granta
RICHARD SENNETT. Humanism
from The Hedgehog Review
LAUREN SLATER. Killing My Body to Save My Mind
from Elle
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS. Outlaw
from The New York Times Magazine
WESLEY YANG. Paper Tigers
from New York Magazine
Contributors’ Notes
Notable Essays of 2011
Other distinguished essays, selected by series editor Robert Atwan.
