On great essays and their writers

James Baldwin on his relationship with his father. Joan Didion on California in the 1960s. John McPhee on Atlantic City — on the Monopoly board and in real life. Those essays and seven others made Robert Atwan's list of the 10 best postwar essays: "The best essays are deeply personal … and deeply engaged with issues and ideas. And the best essays show that the name of the genre is also a verb, so they demonstrate a mind in process — reflecting, trying-out, essaying."

October 19, 2014

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