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“The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great one when you feel it, because it is concentrated life,” writes Hilton Als in his introduction. Expertly guided by Als’s instinct and intellect, The Best American Essays 2018 showcases great essays as well as irresistibly eclectic ones. Go undercover in North Korea, delve into the question of race in the novels of William Faulkner, hang out in the 1970s New York music scene, and take a family road trip cum art pilgrimage. These experiences and more immersive slices of concentrated life await.
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Publisher's Weekly
September 10, 2018
In a personal and moving introduction to this thoughtful entry in the long-running series, Als (White Girls) writes of being attracted to essays that “have something unfinished about them,” as they reflect an increasingly “broken world” where people fight to establish themselves as “I.” In responding to the current political and social climate, his selections emphasize feelings of “otherness,” empowerment, and disempowerment amidst a wide variety of experiences. The #MeToo movement receives its due in Edwidge Danticat’s haunting memoir piece on sexual abuse, while Leslie Jamison gives a euphoric but complicated account of the 2017 post-inauguration Women’s March in Washington, D.C., and Steven Harvey reflects on race and privilege in connection to the African-American celebrity with whom he shares a name. Less obvious kinds of difference and selfhood are also eloquently exposed: in David Wong Louie’s account of how throat cancer has robbed him of the sensuality of food and altered his physical self as he loses the ability to swallow, and in high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s rumination on fear and how to confront it. The works in this year’s collection are a mix of the disconcerting, the probing, and the self-reflective, and well-suited to challenging times.
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