THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2017

Edited by Leslie Jamison. An annual anthology featuring essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, including Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Kenyon Review, and The Threepenny Review. This edition highlights major works from 2016, such as "The Weight of James Arthur Baldwin" by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, "What Came Before the Big Bang?" by Alan Lightman, "Cost of Living" by Emily Maloney, "Working the City" by Bernard Farai Matambo, "Indigent Disposition" by Christopher Notarnicola, "Revenge of the Mouthbreathers: A Smoker’s Manifesto" by June Thunderstorm, and more. Houghton Mifflin. 302 pages.